On_Culture Vol. 09 (2020)
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Of Animal Love and Abuse: Exploring Ambivalent Human-Animal Relationships in Tiger King (2020) during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2020)On March 20, 2020, Netflix launched a new hit. The true crime documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness became the streaming provider s most successful show to date and served as one of the most popular distraction ... -
Caring like a State: Politicizing Love, Touch, and Precarious Lives in the Time of COVID-19
(2020)This essay builds on the extraordinary circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to tease out some of the ways in which love has been played out politi-cally in relation to migration. In Canada, as elsewhere in ... -
An Erotic Re-Imagination of Human/Nature Relationality: Ecosexuality and the Legacies of Coloniality in Love and Sex
(2020)In this paper, I set out to uncover the legacies of coloniality in our understandings of love and sex by looking at ecosexuality as a conceptual framework. I argue that sex and love as defined and categorized by the logic ... -
"Alle Apparate abschalten." Conceiving Love and Technology with Heidegger And Kittler
(2020)This article explores Friedrich Kittler´s conception of the intersection of love with modern technology and illustrates the theoretical insights gained by considering Spike Jonze´s film Her (2013). The German media theorist ... -
Bringing Intimacies into the Discussion: On the Relevance of Addressing Intimate Relationships in a Migration Context
(2020)Topics such as gender, sexualities, and intimacies, recently experienced processes of instrumentalization and culturalization in European public and political discourses on migration matters. Culturalization is particularly ... -
Turkey´s Pioneering Psychoanalyst: Izeddin Sadan´s Disquisition on (Homosexual) Love as Sickness
(2020)Izeddin Sadan, considered to be among the pioneers of psychoanalysis in Turkey, published a series of essays in 1936 titled Eros (Ask) Ile Mücadele [ Strife with Eros (Love) ] in the popular magazine Yeni Adam. He hailed ... -
Love as Practice of Solidarity: Of Peripheral Bodies, Embodied Justice and Associated Labor
(2020)The essay is a feminist auto-ethnographic exercise in which I reflect upon my activist and academic life in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and migrant life in Germany as situated knowledges (Haraway 1988), aiming to provide ...
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