The Colonization of Love: A Nobody Investigation
By Vernon Snell
Length9h 39m
About this audiobook
The Colonization of Love: A Nobody Investigation asks a deceptively simple question: What did humanity do after discovering that another human being could matter?
Nobody enters the evidence, investigating love through memory, desire, attachment, neuroscience, history, marriage, religion, government, commerce, technology, cinema, music, and the expectations civilization built around human connection. The Colonization of Love A Nobo…
Through Vernon Snell’s Poetic Cinema, satire meets philosophy, science meets lived experience, and the ordinary becomes evidence. The investigation explores why people become attached, why absence can hurt so deeply, and how another person can become woven into songs, rooms, routines, memories, and imagined futures.
Love may be ancient. But humanity built an entire world around it.
Nobody investigates. Everybody testifies. Nothing gets the last word.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Education and Learning
Length9 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Series Signature
2Title Page
3Dedication
4Before the Investigation
5What Is a Nobody Investigation?
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6Investigators, Witnesses & Troublemakers
7How a Nobody Investigation Works
8Fact, Fiction, Satire & Metaphor
9A Note on the Word Colonization
10A Note on Love, the Brain & Addiction
11Opening Statement of the Case
12Chapter One - Love
13Chapter Two - Before the Word
14Chapter Three - The Heart That Doesn’t Think
15Chapter Four - Love’s First Colonies
16Chapter Five - The Smell of Somebody Gone
17Chapter Six - The Original Dealer
18Chapter Seven - Marriage Gets a Government Office
19Chapter Eight - God Gets Invited to the Wedding
20Chapter Nine - Hollywood Sells the Kiss
21Chapter Ten - The Song Knows Too Much
22Chapter Eleven - February 14th Incorporated
23Chapter Twelve - Sex Wearing Love’s Jacket
24Chapter Thirteen - Jealousy Applies for Citizenship
25Chapter Fourteen - The Person Becomes the Place
26Chapter Fifteen - Withdrawal Without a Substance
27Chapter Sixteen - Swipe Right for Dopamine
28Chapter Seventeen - Crimes Committed in Love’s Name
29Chapter Eighteen - Miss Gloria’s Empty Chair
30Chapter Nineteen - Nobody vs. Love
31Chapter Twenty - The Thing Nobody Wants Cured
32The Closing Report
33Creator of Poetic Cinema
34The Author Without the Expected Resume
35The Book Is Not Always the Final Form
36The File Never Really Closes
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