Jonas Ferdinand

Technology is conventionally viewed as dehumanising. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise book, Emotional Technologies, technology has become uniquely emotional, continuously tapping into and eliciting a great variety of emotions. From emojis, GIFs, and likes, to influencers, meditation apps, and virtual worlds, technology increasingly mimics and extends emotional life, turning feelings into quantifiable data and yielding extraordinary profits....