{"product_id":"contemporary-closeness","title":"Contemporary Closeness","description":"Contemporary Closeness: Strangeness in Ecological, Literary and Technological Intimacies brings together odd, queer, and minor encounters, intimacies that linger in odd places between accidental acquaintances and randomly encountered things in both real and imagined worlds. This collection highlights how intimacy is always both affirmative and unsettling, personal and yet tied to public life and politics. It shows how various intimacies arrive in our awareness as energies and intensities. They make us feel alive and connected to the liveliness outside ourselves, even if this liveliness is not always comfortable and is experienced in life defined by various crises (environmental, political, and demographic). The articles explore how to find the energy to feel intimate with people and communities around us in times of crises, and whether finding such an intimacy is possible or ethical. In their different ways, the articles contemplate the need to de-privatise intimacy to establish new imaginaries and practices of closeness on the most immediate and yet also planetary scale. The collection serves as an essential resource for courses exploring contemporary critical theory, environmental literature, and the intersection of technology and intimacy. The chapters book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal for Theoretical Humanities.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58933236826447,"sku":"9781041310945","price":292.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/contemporary-closeness","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}