Früher hat man nicht gedatet. Erst als Frauen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts allein in die Städte aufbrachen, um dort zu leben und zu arbeiten, änderte sich das. Die Geschichte des Datings ist also auch eine Geschichte des Feminismus. Und eine Geschichte ökonomischer Realitäten, die das Date schon immer maßgeblich beeinflusst haben und es bis heute tun. Moira Weigel hat die erste Kulturgeschichte des Datings geschrieben. Darin spricht sie über die ersten Kinos und besorgte Eltern, über Sex...

"An occasionally amusing and often provocative look at the work of wooing . . . [A] lively tour of changing romantic mores." — The Economist"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: ...

In tutte le società umane e in molte di quelle animali ci sono sempre stati rituali di corteggiamento. Non in tutte c’è stato il dating. Alcuni animali fanno danze di corteggiamento spettacolari, ma non escono per appuntamenti romantici. Fino al Novecento circa non lo hanno fatto nemmeno gli esseri umani. Da allora, gli esperti dichiarano regolarmente che il dating è morto o sta per morire. Il motivo è semplice. Le modalità con cui si svolgono gli appuntamenti romantici cambiano con l’econ...

From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industryIn Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR ...

Als Donald Trump zum ersten Mal Präsident wurde, ging ein Richard Rorty zugeschriebenes Zitat viral: Wenn die »kulturelle Linke«, so Rorty 1998, materielle Fragen weiterhin ignoriere, werde es einen Bruch geben – »something will crack«. »Ärmere Wähler« würden einen starken Mann an die Macht bringen, es drohe eine Rückkehr des Sadismus. So hellsichtig diese Prognose war, hat derFokus auf die »woken« Linken und die »Verlierer« in Debatten über Trump & Co. doch einen blinden Fleck erzeugt. Ge...

"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: That's not the way to find true love. The first women who made dates with strangers were often arrested for prostitution; long before "hookup culture," there were "petting p...

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...

From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industryIn Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. I...