I had moved from Texas to Los Angeles, where I knew almost no one, so online dating seemed like a promising approach, especially in a metropolis of ten million people. The night of the election, I was at home alone with our dogs, mourning the end of my marriage but thinking At least at the end of this horrible night we’ll have a woman president. My second husband was running for office, and we couldn’t tell people we were splitting up until after the election because it might have disrupted his campaign. In the fall of 2016, my second marriage ended in spectacular concert with the presidential election.
On practically every page I underlined some insight that matched my own experience my personal travails began to make more sense.Ĭhoice-sexual, consumer, or emotional-is the chief trope under which the self and the will in liberal polities are organized.
She focuses specifically on what she terms “scopic capitalism”-how the modern free market creates economic value primarily through images. Illouz has studied the relationship between love and capitalism for twenty years, and in this book she describes the ways that consumer culture has shaped social bonds. I hadn’t been able to understand fully why it “wasn’t working” until I read Eva Illouz’s book The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations. I haven’t had much fun, and I haven’t found a mate. I’ve had a hell of a time with online dating. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 4.0.
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