Alfie Bown is a Teaching Fellow in Media Arts at Royal Holloway University London. He has written several books including The Playstation Dreamworld (Polity, 2017) and In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also writes for the Guardian, the Paris Review, and other places. He is currently working on a book on new technologies of love.

Alfie Bown

Love in the Age of Data

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Alfie Bown is a Teaching Fellow in Media Arts at Royal Holloway University London. He has written several books including The Playstation Dreamworld (Polity, 2017) and In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also writes for the Guardian, the Paris Review, and other places. He is currently working on a book on new technologies of love.