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Further Reading/Watching/Listening: · Of any thinker, I am most indebted to Eva Illouz for my understanding of this topic. Her books Why Love Hurts and Cold Intimacies are essential. · Byung-Chul Han’s The Agony of Eros was also very instructive. · If you want to learn more about history of the rise of dating apps and the business of dating app companies, The Land of Giants podcast, season 7 entitled Dating Games was excellent. · As mentioned, “The Age of the Instagram Face” by Jia Tolentino (The Age of Instagram Face | The New Yorker) and Filterworld by Kyle Chayka both help contextualize how algorithms are shaping our aesthetic norms. The Ted Gioia essay on dopamine culture forms a nice trilogy with these two pieces, as it also critiques the impact that techno-capitalism is having on aesthetic taste: The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia (honest-broker.com). · The episode of Black Mirror entitled “Hang the DJ” explores many of the themes here in a narrative form. · Munecat’s video on the Manosphere deliciously dunks on the OKCupid study’s misinterpretation and other uses of app data to support incel ideology. · For a more in-depth discussion of incel ideology, see Sam Shpall’s excellent forthcoming paper in Hypatia, “Incels and Warrior Masculinity” or the chapter regarding incels in Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex. · My views on the complexity of female sexuality and the female gaze were partially informed by ContraPoints’ magnum opus on this subject, “Twilight.” Twilight | ContraPoints - YouTube · Love and Limerence by Dorothy Tennov is a fascinating account of the psychological state of limerence discussed in this video. · As mentioned, The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovitz provides a critique of de-skilling under modern capitalism, arguing it leads to the concentration of skills among elites, robbing the underclass of the ability to meaningfully contribute. · Relatedly, philosopher Shannon Vallor provides a critique of the same system for how it deskills us morally, from an Aristotelian virtue ethical perspective in “Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character.” · I mention briefly Merleau-Ponty and his The Phenomenology of Perception. Philosopher Ellie Anderson provides a clear introduction to that text in her video on the Overthink Podcast page: “Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception.” Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception (youtube.com) o I did not have the chance to really break down the influence of his critique of the empiricist approach on perception on these ideas but Eva Illouz’s work goes into that a bit further for those who are intrigued. · The application of the analogy of enclosure to techno-capitalism comes from Mark Andrejevic in papers like “Ubiquitous Computing and the Digital Enclosure Movement.” Note: in invoking this analogy, I don’t mean to weigh in on the debate that has recently been going on between commentators like Yanis Varoufakis and Evgeny Morozov regarding whether we are in techno-feudalism or techno-capitalism; if anything, that is a topic for a whole other video. · On the topic of third spaces, Youtubers Andrewism and Mina Le both have great videos o Andrewism: What Our Cities Are Missing - YouTube o Mina Le: third places, stanley cup mania, and the epidemic of loneliness - YouTube · For more on platform decay/degradation and the enshittification of the internet, this interview by the Srsly Wrong boys with Cory Doctorow is a primer: Platform Decay, and How Amazon Raises Prices for Everyone (w/ Cory Doctorow) -- SRSLY WRONG ep 297 - YouTube. · For one of the most fascinating accounts of a radical DIY movement I have read, see this NewYorker article on domestic violence shelters by Larissa MacFarquhar: The Radical Transformations of a Battered Women’s Shelter | The New Yorker · In the area of more general theorists that influenced my conception of broader trends that dating apps instantiate: o As ever, I was influenced by the work of Hartmut Rosa in writing the script for this video essay. His works Resonance, The Uncontrollability of the World and Social Acceleration are fundamental to how I approach…every topic. o The concept of depressive hedonia comes from Mark Fischer’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? o As mentioned, A Secular Age by Charles Taylor provides a useful critique of modernity. o L.M. Sacasas runs a fantastic Substack on these topics entitled “The Convivial Society,” where he writes a lot of wonderful essays about such techno-critical thinkers as Marshall McLuhan and Ivan Illich. His essay “Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships” is quoted extensively here. Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships - by L. M. Sacasas (substack.com)