What the role imports
The lover is repeatedly destabilized by mediation, commerce, performance and synthetic personhood.
Strong instances
The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover
lover becomes machine/interface/story-system
Return Her: ELARA
intimacy collides with personhood and technological administration
Love, Sex, Desire & Intimacy
broader thematic field
Pornopticon
erotic looking becomes surveillance architecture
What JQD does to it
The erotic role is useful because it promises singular relation; the corpus repeatedly places that promise inside systems designed for repetition, sale, capture or substitution.
Lexical footprint
The associated vocabulary appears in 67 of 212 archived publications, with 106 matched word-forms. Hits are leads, not verdicts.
High-concentration sources include With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · Sketches of San Lucero · .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described · FutureSport 90-90 · OTHERWORLD AESTHETICS™ (NOT A CULT THIS TIME).