(Per)Versions of Love and Hate (Hardcover)

Explores the relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, and libidinal and destructive drives, by investigating phenomena such as: Ceaucescu's Rumania; Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik; and the Hollywood melodramas. The author questions the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalists and argues that practices such as body-mutilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.