It happens that love comes to a standstill in two or three people. And it happens that love, sex, intimacy and friendship come to a standstill at once in many, in entire societies | this is what happens when entire institutions and states invite citizens to turn a blind eye to changes in the world, suggest that there is something unchanging in relations between people and live as if it were the eternal 19th century. In Russia, as in many other places, love has definitely reached a dead end| the necropolitics of the past and present inhabit the public sphere with sacred ghosts and silence the conversation about living human bodies, the diversity of their forms and the relationships between them. The result is less meaningful relationships that bring joy and stability to all parties, and more violence.People declare their love, but love itself remains unexplained. In place of traditions, questions arise in boils: who really needs a family, why friendship is, as it were, less valuable than love, who wants the townspeople to be happy, who determines happiness, why love is considered mandatory for everyone, and why hundreds of millions of people are denied the right to on it, why intimacy is a personal right of everyone and why it is bad, what does the structure of the city, migration flows, pharmacology, the state apparatus, the division of labor, the climate crisis, the production of mobile equipment, drones and coral reefs have to do with it. Publisher layout saved in a4.pdf format.