
…ncing it is that love is nothing so long as it is confined to unspoken words and unbelieving minds. Love is also a practice. It is a practice of togetherness that comes about only at the great cost of being willing to act beyond the norms of capitalist culture’s conventional wisdom about relationships and dating,
…ly on capitalist pseudoscience, especially three assumptions that I think are particularly harmful: 1. the reducibility of human beings into ‘brand,’ human capital, exchange value, their relational costs and benefits — a process sometimes called objectification; 2. the conceptualization of the sexual and romantic field as a ‘market’ wherein all relationships …