Incels, dating apps and courtly love: consumer capitalism is doubtlessly at the forefront of the Valentine's Day industry, but with digitalization, dating has begun to take a different shape. Many open up to ideas of fluidity, non-restrictive commitments, and new means of communication.

Guests: Faris Cuchi Gezahegn is an intersectional LGBTQIA* activist, performance artist, and Ethiopian Queer knowledge and culture producer. They are the co-founder of House of Guramayle and the vice-chair of Afro Rainbow Austria; the first organization established by and for African LGBTQI+ communities in Austria.

Carin Franzen has been a professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University since 2020. In her research, she investigates the history of subjectivity in premodern as well as modern and contemporary European literature and deals with formations of subjectivity. She has published on mediaeval and early modern female writers’ appropriations of subject positions in the tradition of courtly love.

Leah Jule Ritterfeld is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, doing her research on “Love-less Lives, Isolated Minds: The Epistemic Fallout of Incels.” She works on radicalization, resentment and love from an epistemic perspective.

We meet with them at the ERSTE Foundation Library, Vienna.

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Creative team Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief Salma Shaka, writer-editor Merve Akyel, art director Szilvia Pintér, producer Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant Zsófia Gabriella Papp, production associate

Management Hermann Riessner managing director Judit Csikós project manager Csilla Nagyné Kardos, office administration

OKTO Crew Senad Hergić producer Leah Hochedlinger video recording Marlena Stolze video recording Clemens Schmiedbauer video recording Richard Brusek sound recording

Postproduction Nóra Ruszkai, lead video editor István Nagy, video editor Milán Golovics, conversation editor

Art Victor Maria Lima, animation Cornelia Frischauf, theme music

Captions and subtitles Julia Sobota closed captions, Polish and French subtitles; language versions management Farah Ayyash Arabic subtitles Mia Belén Soriano Spanish subtitles Marta Ferdebar Croatian subtitles Lídia Nádori German subtitles Katalin Szlukovényi Hungarian subtitles Daniela Univazo German subtitles Olena Yermakova Ukrainian subtitles Aida Yermekbayeva Russian subtitles Mars Zaslavsky Italian subtitles

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