![]() ![]() Article contentīecause it’s authored by a prominent male celebrity, Modern Romance isn’t positioned as much more than some shouty, gendered rhetoric about love and relationships, but that might be where its subversive power lies. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() (Modern Romance comes with the disclaimer that it is a heterospecific, middle-class investigation.) Well the book is not written in the lingua franca of social justice, Ansari’s politics have led him to develop what could quite possibly be the most progressive mass-market dating guide yet. Some of those studies Ansari and Klinenberg set up themselves, for the purpose of this book: There are anecdotes from daters in big US cities, small Midwest towns, as well as Doha, Tokyo, Paris and Buenos Aires, that give some insight into how the culture of dating (and attitudes toward technology) has evolved globally. Our romantic lives increasingly play out across two worlds, Ansari writes, “the real world and our phone world.” As far as dating guides go it’s rather peculiar, driven largely by data gleaned from matchmaking sites like OKCupid, as well as smartphone and dating studies from around the world. Mercifully, Ansari’s new book Modern Romance, co-written with sociologist Eric Klinenberg, is not pitched as some kind of feminist tract - which would, perhaps, be the ultimate mansplaining move - but an exploration of dating culture in a our newly digital world.
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