Theory of Love

Timothy Laurie is a Lecturer in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and the Managing Editor of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. His core research fields include cultural theory, studies in popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. In collaboration with investigators at the University of Sydney, he is currently working on a three-year research project entitled ‘Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem’ funded by the Australian Research Council.Hannah Stark is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, philosophies of love, autotheory, the nonhuman turn, cultural engagements with extinction, and the emergence of the Anthropocene as a key conceptual framework. She is the author of Feminist Theory After Deleuze (2016), and the co-editor of Deleuze and the Non/Human(2015) and Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene (2016). She is currently working on a project funded by the Australian Research Council, ‘Beyond Extinction: Reconstructing the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Archive’.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Ideal Love and its Alternatives.- Chapter 3: Singledom in the Future Tense: Lobster, Unicorn, Horse.- Chapter 4: Coupling Anyway: Love as Becoming.- Chapter 5: The Limits of Love: On Forgiveness.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Toward a Post-Sentimental Concept of Love.