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The result of a collective conversation organized in Zagreb by the Croatian platform k.r.u.z.o.k., this limited edition publication brings together an interdisciplinary group of discussions, presentations, artistic explorations, lecture-performances and film research on the relationship of love to the political, social, and economic and ideological. Composed of both visual and textual material, chapters touch on a variety of topics including the entanglement of politics and collective sentiment, the relationship between ideology and social emotions, sexuality and nationalism, love as a trigger for dedicated unpaid work. Participants chosen from a group of artists, theorists and cultural workers include the Romanian Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Dutch artist Clare Butcher, Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic, Polish curator Sebastian Cichocki, Lithuanian scholar Marija Dremaite, Croatian collective Fokus Grupa, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, Belarusian artist Marina Naprushkina, Croatian scholar Ana Peraica, and curator Tihana Puc.