• Toyed With - Alfie Bown on the gameification of affect and love's digital futures

  • Jun 4 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Toyed With - Alfie Bown on the gameification of affect and love's digital futures

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  • In an age when our most intimate connections with others are mediated by gamified interfaces, it’s high time to revisit how the game of love became the plaything of capital. Alfie Bown joins us for episode 8 to explore the joys and horrors of the ero-tech and the burning question: can hookup apps, dating sims and thirst traps can be reclaimed for the common good?


    Alfie Bown is editor of "Everyday Analysis" and "Sublation Magazine". His books include Post Comedy, which is forthcoming in 2024, Dream Lovers, Capitalism and the Gamification of Relationships from 2022, Post Memes from 2019 and the PlayStation Dream World from 2017.


    For full transcript and show notes please visit weirdeconomies.com.


    Credits:

    Founder and organizer of Weird Economies: Bahar Noorizadeh

    Host: Max Haiven

    Producer: Halle Frost

    Sound editor: Faye Harvey

    Sponsor: Canada Council for the Arts


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