Erotic intimacy calls into question the construction of subjectivity because often a good lifestyle is evaluated through the ability of knowing how to build and master intimate relationships. Here I take into account the uses of the dating app Tinder, analysing how it influences the construction of the self and the articulation of intimacy. After a review of some methodological and epistemological issues, I describe how Tinder can be a powerful self-reflexive device, and how material and symbolic conditions of the users influence its applications, often showing a subjectivity strongly related to the behaviour of the detached consumer.

Fare relazioni intime. Gli usi di Tinder e le soggettività contemporanee tra ricostruzione del sé e commercializzazione

Fulvio Cozza
2022-01-01

Abstract

Erotic intimacy calls into question the construction of subjectivity because often a good lifestyle is evaluated through the ability of knowing how to build and master intimate relationships. Here I take into account the uses of the dating app Tinder, analysing how it influences the construction of the self and the articulation of intimacy. After a review of some methodological and epistemological issues, I describe how Tinder can be a powerful self-reflexive device, and how material and symbolic conditions of the users influence its applications, often showing a subjectivity strongly related to the behaviour of the detached consumer.
2022
Intimacy
Dating App
Self Construction
Anthropology of Love
Ethnography
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