Reactivation: Performance, Mediatization and the Present Moment

Auslander, Philip, Reactivation: Performance, Mediatization and the Present Moment, in , Interfaces of Performance, Routledge, 2016, pp. 97-110

Abstract
Limerence is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state in which a person feels an intense romantic desire for another person, a constantly distracting obsessive infatuation which can last for months, years and occasionally a lifetime. In On Love, the popular writer of philosophy and television celebrity Alain de Botton laments the ‘long gloomy tradition in Western thought argues that love is in its essence an unreciprocated Marxist emotion and that desire can only thrive on the impossibility of mutuality’. Love is, according to Fisher, actually three distinct and observable ‘systems’ of chemical process, brain patterns and defined behaviours. Similarly, in 1999 viral love story carrier is a sensual investigation of attraction and attachment between shifting physical, emotional and viral network nodes -the symbiotic relationship between human, software and machine. Alternatively, limerence can be transformed and transferred, via the same biological and chemical processes, to a different limerent object or resonant artefact.

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