"The cultural change denominated as "the new normal" goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited personal contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in societies all around the world: physical contact decreases while virtual reality expands and public spaces decline while artificial intelligence grows, leading to structural reconfigurations of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-Pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning global governmentality and challenging the biopolitics of the new normal, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more"--
Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-Pandemic World offers a provocative lens to frame today’s “new normal”. This collection presents a multidimensional panorama of the sexuality and eroticism landscapes in the 2020s, and of its upcoming—both unsettling and promising—horizons.
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction to the New Normal Biopolitics, Sexuality and Eroticism in a
Post-pandemic World
Phil Shining
Part 1
Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century
Authoritarianism
1Transgressing the New Normal Sexuality and Obscenity in a Post-pandemic
Spain
Assumpta Sabuco Cantó
2A Media Pandemic Sexualized Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of
Mis-sublimation
Sophia Kanaouti
3A Room of Whose Own? Pleasure and Privacy in Pre-and Post-pandemic
Havana
Dara E. Goldman
Part 2
Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social
Distancing
4Pleasure in the Face of Death Poetry and Self-realization
Rita Dirks
5The Touch We Miss
Nebojsa Kujundzic
Part 3
Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education
through Alternative Pornography
6Alt Porn as a New Sexual Script
Dionne van Reenen and Robert Scott Stewart
7Sex & Love in the Time of Quarantine Re-signifying Gender and Erotic
RepresentationsErika Lust-Style
Lily Martinez Evangelista and M. Emilia Barbosa
Part 4
Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-exploration through Visual and
Plastic Arts
8The Hunger for Touch Fatih Akins Gegen die Wand (Head-On) and the Cinema
of Sensation
ebnem Nazl Karal and George Karpathakis
9pros-thesis
Lawrence Buttigieg
10Scream at Life The Self as Erotic Figure
Jon Braddy
Part 5
Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire
11The Era of the Erotic Understanding Epochal Change through Tantra and
Christianity
John R. Dupuche
12Sex Life Cultivation Ars Erotica as an Alternative to Sex Education and
Sex Therapy
Phil Shining
Index
Phil Shining is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer focused on sex life cultivation, arts of living, and practice-oriented spirituality. Phil is the founder and director of the Sexuality and Spirituality Research Network (S&SRN), where he creates academic projects and edits its own books. He is an empirical sexual practice researcher assembling critical theory with Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, and Buddhism in training sessions and self-management programs. Phil is, along with Nicol Michelle Epple, co-editor and contributor to the book Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field (Brill, 2021). sexualityandspirituality.org / philshining.net
JON BRADDY is an Associate Professor of Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he teaches Queer Theory. Dr. Braddys work has appeared in Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression, eds. John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen (Brill, 2019) and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill, 2020). He has served as editor of the Florida Communication Journal. His work is heavily informed by philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies. Beyond Jons printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, among others.
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