Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is a poet. He studied Literary Studies (University of Barcelona, UB), has a master’s degree in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (UB) and in the Independent Studies Program of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. He has been an associate professor of literature and critique of culture at the UB and is currently researching contemporary theory and literature at King’s College London, on a scholarship. He is the author of the poetry books Tanta gana (Francesc Garriga Prize 2018) and La part del foc (López-Picó Prize 2020), and of the novel Napalm al cor (Anagrama Books Prize 2021).

Is Love a Writing? An interpretation of love as a literary device
The research proposes an innovative formulation around the study of the love experience that reorders the field of knowledge with and through literature: it consists, on the one hand, to incorporate the literary dimension as a source of knowledge and thus, on the other hand, to reconsider the inherited and hegemonic knowledge about love. In this sense, it proposes a broader reading of the notion of "technology" (in the genealogy traced from Martin Heidegger to Teresa de Lauretis and Silvia Federici) to revisit the concepts of writing and dispositive, and to illuminate the experience of love through these notions that consider the narrative openness of love and its power as a dispositive to define a certain idea of what it means to be human.