Playing Monogamy

Love is love, but not really. To recognize love as love we need comprehensible images. What are those contemporary images that help us identify love and how could we identify love differently, figuring it as less defined by safety procedures, measured commitment and feelings of ownership and entitlement? Playing Monogamy refuses to see personal relationships as safe havens where people can hide from the precarities of society, and instead proposes to make public life more intimate and romantic.

Through a contemporary rereading of the cult of monogamy, van Saarloos playfully queers the way in which the structure of monogamy is upheld through social convention within Western contexts. Written for more of a lay audience, the book proposes an expanded and polyamorous engagement with intimacy and sexuality as a possible alternative.
-PS Guelph Website

Author
Simon(e) van Saarloos

Editor
Isabelle Sully

Publishers
PS Rotterdam
Musagetes Foundation Guelph

Publication Date
2015

Size
4.75 x 7.5 inches
130 pages

Binding
Softcover, perfect-bound

ISBN
978-1-989157-18-3