Swipe-era romance is not reducible to a financialized homo economicus logic
Evidence
I critically review sociological framings of modern intimacy that project a neoliberal romantic subject, haunted by the hyperrational figure of homo economicus. I challenge the view that contemporary intimate bonds are upended by the financialization of sex and intimacy and the ascendancy of an entrepreneurial logic of choice. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 37
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated goal of showing speculation migrated into dating and self-presentation, and to the critique of homo economicus as an explanatory figure. — connects to: Neoliberal critique alone cannot explain speculation in modern dating — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 224; Online dating markets frame romance as return on affective investment — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 50; Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 216 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Neoliberal critique alone cannot explain speculation in modern dating — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 224; Online dating markets frame romance as return on affective investment — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 50; Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 216 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal critique alone cannot explain speculation in modern dating
#corroborates(0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 224 - Romantic bonds are now formed as transactable speculative positions
#complicates(0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 13 - Online dating markets frame romance as return on affective investment
#complicates(0.88) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 50 - Finance’s speculative imagination shapes intimate desires deeper than economic principles do.
#complicates(0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 339 - Risk-society theories frame romance as rational risk deliberation toward self-disclosure
#complicates(0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 228 - Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other.
#complicates(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 216