Some of the general effects of what tends to be simplistically glossed as neoliberalism include a restructuring of the social order at the most basic levels: an ostensible weakening of the state; the decline of the family; a loss of the traditional category of “labor,” and a loss of what has classically been described as the political sphere. In the face of neoliberal policies and powers, love has to an extent been (or at least, can be) posed as a counterforce of sorts. In considering that proposition, this paper takes up brief examples of what might be thought of as contemporary infrastructures of love and labor—bringing together the conditions of net-based technologies with reorganized physical spaces of work and community in the cities of Brooklyn and Tokyo. Ultimately the paper looks at the ways in which we might now think about what constitutes a sovereign subject; what governs the formation of community; and what the implications are for political action under these conditions.
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