The nexus between love and digitization has become a significant matter of concern in contemporary society. On the one hand, the romantic subject has never had more help at hand to seek out love through apps and platforms. On the other, hand, these very same aids are claimed to signal the end of romantic love. While there is much debate on whether or not digitization and love are incompatible systems, and much time has been devoted to exploring the new technical devices and their methods, little attention has been given to the other part of the equation: namely what we mean by love. Instead, love is taken for granted in these discussions as a stabilized, if not stabilizing, entity. This special issue unsettles this focus, by exploring not only the effects of new technologies and big data methods on amorous love, but also what we mean when we talk about love. Co-authored introduction in The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. A special edition that I co-authored entitled The Techniques and Aesthetics of Love in the Age of Big Data

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大数据时代的爱情技术和美学

爱与数字化之间的联系已成为当代社会关注的重要问题。一方面，浪漫的主题从来没有更多的帮助，可以通过应用程序和平台寻找爱情。另一方面，据称这些完全相同的辅助工具预示着浪漫爱情的终结。尽管关于数字化和爱情是否是不兼容的系统存在很多争论，并且已经花了很多时间来探索新的技术设备及其方法，但很少关注方程式的其他部分：即我们所指的是爱。取而代之的是，在这些讨论中，爱被视为是稳定的（如果不是稳定的）实体。本期专刊不仅探讨了新技术和大数据方法对多情爱情的影响，而且当我们谈论爱情时，我们的意思是。是《美学与文化杂志》的合著者。我与他人合着的特别版题为《大数据时代的爱情的技巧和美学》