Love Is a Problem of Knowledge.
Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section "It's a Match!" discusses the tools for match...
| Publicado en: | Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society Vol. 112; no. 4; pp. 804 - 807 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2021
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| Sumario: | Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section "It's a Match!" discusses the tools for matchmaking developed from fields like astrology or phrenology and their social implications. The essay closes with a meditation on the continuities evident in efforts to predict and match possible lovers using apps and algorithms today. |
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