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    Always the Same Faces. Aus dem Alltag philippinischer…

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    Berlin Art Scene

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    Miami

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    TEXT Gespräche

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    They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from…

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    A School for Design Fiction

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    Wissenschaftssprache digital. Die Zukunft von gestern

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    B is for Bauhaus. An A-Z of the Modern World

  • Andy Merrifield

    The New Urban Question

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    Ways of Curating

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    Anke Westermann. Atlas

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    Schöne Neue Arbeit / Brave New Work. Ein Reader zu Harun…

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    Der Gang der Dinge. Welche Zukunft haben photographische…

  • Emil Ruder

    Fundamentals

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    The Architecture of the Screen

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    Mietenwahnsinn

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    Kill Your Darlings

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    Records By Artists. 1958-1990

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    Ed Atkins

  • Helmut Lethen

    Der Schatten des Fotografen

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    Big Sign - Little Building

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    The Uncertainty Principle

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    Reclaim Berlin. Soziale Kämpfe in der neoliberalen Stadt

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    In the Field. The Art of Field Recording

  • Diedrich Diederichsen

    Über Pop-Musik

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    Ein kritischer Modus? Die Form der Theorie und der Inhalt…

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    Entfesselung der Architektur. Der Architekt: Baumeister…

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    Arts-Based Research

  • Elisabeth Roudinesco

    Lacan. In Spite Of Everything

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    Neue Baukunst. Architektur der Moderne in Bild und Buch

  • Justus Dahinden

    Architektur - Form und Emotion. Architecture - Form and…

  • Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou

    Die Macht der Enteigneten. Das Performative im Politischen

  • Matt Mullican

    Editions 1985-2012

  • Daan Paans

    Letters from Utopia

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    Das Versprechen der Kunst

  • Kerry Brougher

    Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950

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    Realismus Jetzt: Spekulative Philosophie und Metaphysik für…

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    Minha Casa-nossa Cidade. Innovating Mass Housing In Brazil

  • Olafur Eliasson

    Eine Feier, elf Räume und ein gelber Korridor

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    Three Faces. Archive Chalayan

  • Alistair Hicks

    The Global Art Compass

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    Reziproke Räume. Texte zu Kulturanthropologie und…

  • Jan Verwoert

    COOKIE!

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    War postdigital besser?

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    L.A. [Ten]. Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture, 1970–…

  • Andrew Hemingway

    The Mysticism of Money

  • Ljiljana Kolešnik (Ed.)

    Socialism and Modernity. Art, Culture, Politics 1950 – 1974

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    Materialrevolution 2. Neue nachhaltige und multifunktionale…

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    Make Shift City. Renegotiating the Urban Commons

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    Dis Continuity

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    Mapping Everything

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    Artists’ Cocktails

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    Flying Furniture

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    ReNew Marxist Art History

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    Kunst und Ideologiekritik nach 1989 / Art and the Critique…

  • Yilmaz Dziewior (Ed.)

    Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital. Love is colder than…

  • Anna Kostreva

    Berlin. Eine Morphologie der Mauern. A Morphology of Walls

  • Emmett Williams

    An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

  • Michaela Melián / Thomas Meinecke

    IEMANJÁ

  • Junya Ishigami

    How Small? How Vast? How architecture grows

  • Pieterjan Grandry

    The Future of Architecture. What is the future of…

  • Beatriz Colomina

    Manifesto Architecture. The Ghost of Mies

  • Jens Müller (Ed.)

    Rolf Müller

  • Gill Perry

    Playing at Home. The House in Contemporary Art

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    Collage and Architecture

  • Gaßner, Kölle, Roettig (Ed.)

    Eva Hesse. One More Than One

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    Wozu Bilder? Gebrauchsweisen der Fotografie

  • Kim Gordon

    Is It My Body? Selected Texts

  • René Spitz

    A5/06. HfG Ulm

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    Begriffe des Ausstellens (von A bis Z). Terms of Exhibiting…

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    Mensch - Raum – Maschine. Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus

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    Ware und Wissen: or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger

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    and Materials and Money and Crisis

  • Brian Dillon

    Objects in This Mirror

  • Barbara Penner

    Bathroom (Objekt series)

  • Otto Paans, Ralf Pasel

    Situational Urbanism. Directing Postwar Urbanity

  • Tactical Technology Collective

    Visualising Information for Advocacy

  • Emma Lavigne

    Pierre Huyghe

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    Architecture after Revolution

  • Phil Pasquini

    Domes, Arches and Minarets. A History of Islamic-Inspired…

  • Tracey Thorn

    Bedsit Disco Queen. How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star

  • Tim Ivison, Tom Vandeputte (Hg)

    Contestations. Learning from Critical Experiments in…

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 362. Poetics of Graphic Language. Contemporary…

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground

  • Jeannette Kuo (Ed.)

    A-Typical Plan

  • Taiji Matsue

    Tyo-WTC

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    Protest Camps

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    Isotype. Design and Contexts, 1925–1971

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    Seeing from Above. The Aerial View in Visual Culture

  • Gianni Politi

    The Ritual of the Snake

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    Wunderland

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    The Mysticism of Money. Precisionist Painting and Machine…

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    Bilderstreit und Gesellschaftsumbruch. Die Debatte um die…

  • Neil Brenner (Ed.)

    Implosions / Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary…

  • Silke Langenberg (Hrsg.)

    Das Marburger Bausystem. Offenheit als Prinzip

  • Langley, Pearce, Worth (Ed.)

    After Butler's Wharf. Essays on a Working Building

  • Vibeke Gieskes (Ed.)

    The Future of Architecture

 cover Dream Lovers

Dream Lovers. The Gamification of Relationships

We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we don't seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire itself.

Our very impulses, drives and urges are 'gamified' to suit particular economic and political agendas, changing the way we relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at the deepest level of desire – re-mapping its libidinal economy - in ways never before imagined possible.

From sexbots to smart condoms, fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms, the 'love industries' are at the heart of the future smart city and the social fabric of everyday life. This book considers these emergent technologies and what they mean for the future of love, desire, work and capitalism.


Alfie Bown
Dream Lovers. The Gamification of Relationships
Pluto Press, 2022, 9780745344874
22,50 €