Eros

Eros. The Overproduction of Emotions

Eros

€®O$ is a creative discourse about love, or more specifically, about the corporations that produce it, the images that announce it and the media that transmits it. Its setting is the Market of Affection. In this place, which belongs to us all, passions are no longer an expression of an interior life, but instead a negotiation with the digital, news and financial instruments that generate the current hyper-connected identity. Its perspective is the sociology of personal relations, but don’t be surprised to alsoencounter a veritable arsenal of satire, poems and songs and even a fictional story that, situated in 2040, imagines the glorious collapse of the Market and its consequences.

€®O$ is composed of ten teletexts that describe a moment of ignition: the place where sensibility collides with spectacle. The reality show becomes the space for fraternity. Chuck Palahniuk describes the tenderness of porn. The Adulterer has his Ministry on the Internet. Paris Hilton finds authentic friendship at a casting. The music industry plays the saddest ballad. The Cohen brothers invent the aesthetics of divorce. TheArs Amandiof today is sung by the Magnetic Fields. It isn’t strange that the energy and humour of these modern epiphanies also run through the veins of this book.

€®O$ is also the story of the fight for legitimacy of emotions. A theory of emotions within capitalism that incorporates an examination of power: that which is exercised through structures of feeling, rules of expressivity, transmission and re-transmissions of states of being, which modulate the subject to construct a recognizable emotional code.

 
Eloy Fernández Porta

Eloy Fernández Porta

Eloy Fernández Porta (Barcelona, 1974) es doctor en Humanidades por la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, con Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado. Ha publicado once libros de «crítica mutante cuyas ideas se metamorfosean en estilo y forma narrativas» (Christine Henseler). En esta colección han aparecido AfterpopHomo Sampler, €RO$ (Premio Anagrama de Ensayo), Emociónese así (Premi Ciutat de Barcelona), En la confidencia, Las aventuras de Genitalia y Normativa, Los brotes negros, Medianenas & Milhombres, y en catalán, L’art de fer-ne un gra massa. Pionero en las modalidades expandidas de la teoría, ha trasladado sus textos al spoken word en los grupos Afterpop Fernández & Fernández (con Agustín Fernández Mallo) y Mainstream (con Jose Roselló) y ha realizado el monólogo teatral Granito del Nuevo Mundo. Sus ensayos han sido adaptados al cómic (por Carlos Maiques y Marcos Prior) y a la videocreación (por Carles Congost y Natxo Medina). Ha sido traducido al inglés, francés y portugués.


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