Front -- Acknowledgements -- Content -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Introducing a Protagonist: Marshall McLuhan, "Media Philosopher" -- 3 'Love Is Blind': Blindness in Relation to "What We Get" -- 4 Love Is Happiness Is Suffering: Ambivalence in Relation to "What We Want" -- 5 Revisiting a Protagonist: A Prelude to Stories of Illusion and Loss, One and Many, Stasis and Change -- 6 Out of Ourselves: The Lover as the One Who Is Extended -- 7 The In-between: -- The Love as Constitutive-Transformative Process -- 8 Fourfold Media: The Beloved as the Working 'Core' -- 9 Medial Nodes: An Eye for Objects, a Mind for Mediation, a Heart for Humans -- 10 Us in Things: The Lovers' Fight in Technical Form - or, Material Ideology -- 11 Mediation-of-Mediation: The "Loves" Multiplied - or, Medial Networks -- 12 Politics in Things: Conspiracies of the Beloved - or, Things' Hidden Agenda -- 13 A Pan-Medial Cosmology -- 14 Into Ourselves: Is Narcissus a Narcissist by Design? -- 15 In between Fixity and Adaptation: Home Is Where the Brain Wires -- 16 Living the Object: Collectors by Design -- 17 Living through the Stasis-Change Dynamic: Learning-as-Dialogue -- 18 Concluding Remarks on Love -- Notes -- References.