Uncommon Sense: Intimacy, with Katherine Twamley [Audio podcast episode]

Abstract

Think of intimacy and, pretty soon, you'll probably think about sex. But, as sociologist Katherine Twamley explains, intimacy means much more than that: it's woven through so many of our relationships -including with people whose names we might not even know. She tells Rosie and Alexis how an accidental trip to India got her thinking about the varied meanings of "love" across cultures and contexts, and reflects on whether, to quote the famous song, love and marriage really do "go together like a horse and carriage". Plus: Katherine discusses what it could mean to decolonise love. Why should we be wary of acts performed in the name of love? Will we ever live in a truly "contactless" world, and who wants that? And we get intimate with the artist Sophie Calle.