Most critics will agree that the adjective cosmopolitan describes not just a way of organizing the world or a type of subject position but also a stance that pertains, in particular, to the ethical relation to the other. Here, Shelden examines the concepts of cosmopolitanism and love, the latter of which seems inseparable from the former, if people consider "cosmopolitan" to register a particular sort of ethical relation. Hari Kunzru's Transmission (2004) explores the idea of a specifically "cosmopolitan love," which does necessarily partake of a conventional ethical relation to the other. She argues that Kunzru takes up a truism about love--that it is a "universal" emotion--in order to offer a critique not only of this conception of love, not only of the homogenizing force of this idea, but also of the idea of cosmopolitanism itself. For Kunzru, cosmopolitanism might well promise to produce a global ethics that allows for the admission of difference without demanding the assimilation of these differences to universal sameness.