Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari 2 книги

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Romance. Two people coming together to form a couple. The marriage plot. At stake is nothing less than the future of our species: the gene pool. Is it any wonder that it has so dominated our collective imagination since the dawn of recorded history? Of course not. But now things are really confusing. Never have the choices been so abundant or so bewildering. It used to be that you actually had to meet someone, somehow, usually as a byproduct of the social landscape you actually occupy. Now? "Online dating" is a phrase that already seems five steps behind in describing the wild range of apps and sites and other stuff people use to find other people. And texting and social media are just some of the technologies that create whole new categories of thing to feel anxious about, if not humiliated by. Then there's sexting. It's a very complicated world. Luckily, Aziz Ansari is on the case. For some time, he has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for a book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. First of all, he recruited famed NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg, to help him get real about things. Together, they embarked on a series of major research projects, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They've teamed up with Match.com and OKCupid to analyze behavioral data from thousands of users and created a Subreddit that drew thousands of messages. They crowd-sourced stories at stand-up shows around the country, and indeed around the world, and enlisted the world's leading scholars on love and romance, including Sherri Turkle, Sheena Iyengar, Eli Finkel, Barry Schwartz, Helen Fisher, and Robb Willer. The things they tackle include how the search for a mate has changed over history, from arranged marriages and courting your closest neighbor to the hunt for a soul mate via the internet; how we ask people out and reach one other via texting; the way online dating has changed the way we connect and present ourselves; the problem of dating in a world of seemingly limitless options and the folly of searching for the best possible person; the decision to commit; monogamy versus open relationships; infidelity; snooping on our partner's phone and social media; breaking up when we are tangled with our partner and his/her friends via social media; and the question of whether getting married leads to a lifetime of passionless existence or delivers a higher love. Aziz Ansari won't promise you the secret keys to eternal love in the pages of his book, but he will make you feel more clued in, and even more sane, about what is going on here. And he also promises to be very funny. Because otherwise, what's the point. Книга «Modern Romance» автора Aziz Ansari оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 7.00 из 10.
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