Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World : : Beyond the Biopolitics of the New Normal / / edited by Phil Shining and Jon Braddy.

• Superior document: Critical Studies ; 42
• TeilnehmendeR: Braddy, Jon,; Shining, Phil,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies ; 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (365 pages) :; illustrations.

The globalized social state known as “the new normal” goes far beyond than the norms and habits of physical distancing, limited person-to-person contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the irruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant changes in human behavior spreads in societies all around the world: an emergent state reconfiguring desire, conditioning pleasure and producing new realities, including uncharted forms of experiencing sex, relationships, gender awareness, and self-transformation, but also of control and governmentality as well. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-Pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating and virtual reality to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction to the "New Normal": Biopolitics, Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post- pandemic World -- 1 The Emperor's New Anti-COVID-19 Clothes -- 2 The Biopolitics of the New Normal: the Governmentality of Self- control in the Transition from Digital to Virtual Societies -- 3 Going Beyond the New Normal: Exploring Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post- pandemic World -- 4 An Overview of the Dispositif of Sexuality in the 21st Century: Capitalism Is Pansexual -- 5 Post-pandemic Post-script on the Societies of Self-control: We Are All Naked- We Are the Empire -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism -- Chapter 1 Transgressing the New Normal: Sexuality and Obscenity in a Post-pandemic Spain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Normative Sexuality and Sexual Transgression in Contemporary Spain -- 3 The covid-19 Pandemic: Sexual Effects and Consequences -- 4 Gender Fluidity in the Post-pandemic Spain: Rodrigo Cuevas' Transgression of Love and Samantha Hudson's Obscene Provocation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 A Media Pandemic: Sexualized Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Mis-sublimation -- 1 Sexualized Right-Wing Populism -- 2 Fragile Women as A-Sexual Mothers -- 3 The Sexuality of the Young "Spreaders" -- 4 Sexualization of Male Politicians -- 5 Sexualization and the Church -- 6 What is the Difference between Male Politicians Sexualization from the Sexualization of Women? -- 7 Sexuality and Sublimation -- 8 Desublimation and Libido -- 9 Mis-sublimation -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 A Room of Whose Own?: Pleasure and Privacy in Pre-and Post-pandemic Havana -- 1 A Room of Whose Own?.

2 The Room Where It Happens? The Prospects, Benefits, and Costs of Queer Interstices -- 3 Room to Maneuver? The Pandemic, Erotic Residue, and the "New Normal" -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing -- Chapter 4 Pleasure in the Face of Death: Poetry and Self-Realization -- 1 Introduction: Poetry Now/Rise in Poetry Reading -- 2 Poetry in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 3 The Pleasure of Poetry/Defence of Poetry/Self -- 4 Transformations/Charlotte -- 5 Interview I: Charlotte -- 6 Transformations/June-a Poet Who Wishes to RemainAnonymous Whom I Shall Call June -- 7 Interview II: June -- 8 Towards a Conclusion/There Is No Final Word to Poetry -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 The Touch We Miss -- 1 Skin Touch as a Scarce Resource -- 2 A New Tactile Awareness: Digital and Touchscreen Technologies -- 3 The Erotic Potential of Interactivity and Sensory Immersion -- 4 The Future of Moral Agencies in a Live Streaming World -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography -- Chapter 6 Alt Porn as a New Sexual Script -- 1 Foucault, Power, Society and Alt Porn -- 2 Mainstream Scripting and Alternative Resistance -- 3 Technologies of the Self -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Sex and Love in the Time of Quarantine: Re-signifying Gender and Erotic Representations-Erika Lust-Style -- 1 Awaking an Erotic Consciousness -- 2 The Erotic Potential and Lust's Positionality -- 3 Authoring Erika Lust and What She Represents -- 4 The Erika Lust Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 5 The Ins and Outs of the Feminist Porn Industry -- 6 Sex &amp -- Love in the Time of Quarantine-Lust's Response to the Global Pandemic's Forced Isolationism -- 7 Interview with Erika Lust on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Sex &amp.

Love in the Time of Quarantine -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 4 Beyond the Senses: Immersing into -- Chapter 8 The Hunger for Touch: Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand (Head-On) and the Cinema of Sensation -- 1 Introducing Fatih Akin and Head-On in the New Normal -- 2 Resetting Akin's Head-On for the Post-pandemic Cultures -- 3 Introducing Cinema of Sensation -- 4 Where Head-On Becomes a Cinema of Sensation -- 5 Cinema of Sensation in the Time of COVID-19 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 pros-thesis -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Scream at Life: The Self as Erotic Figure -- 1 The Scream of Consequences -- 2 Diagramming Pros-thesis -- 3 #Findom, the Scream of the New Normal -- Bibliography -- Part 5 Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire -- Chapter 11 The Era of the Erotic: Understanding Epochal Change through Tantra and Christianity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Epochal Change -- 3 Eros: a Shifting Scene -- 3.1 Conflicting Attitudes to Eros in the Christian Tradition -- 3.2 The Avant-Garde: Sexuality and Eroticism according to Georges Bataille -- 3.3 'Western' Re-imaginings of Hindu Tantra -- 4 Tantric and Christian Contributions to the Era of the Erotic -- 4.1 Insights from Kashmir Shaivism's Perspective on the Kula Tantra -- 4.2 Erotic Elements in the Christian Tradition -- 5 The Era of the Erotic -- 5.1 Confined-Undefined -- 5.2 Isolated-All-Embracing -- 5.3 Fear-Confidence -- 5.4 Income-Simplicity -- 5.5 Lockdown-Freedom -- 5.6 Boredom-The Erotic -- 5.7 Cooperation-Communion -- 5.8 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 Sex Life Cultivation: Ars Erotica as an Alternative to Sex Education and Sex Therapy -- 1 Preamble: Living in the Era of Sexuality Self-Management -- 2 Sex Life Cultivation: a Model of Ars Erotica for the 21st Century -- 3 Generating Sexual Knowledge in Times of Globalization.

4 Generating Sexual Knowledge through Sex Life Cultivation -- 5 Sex Life Cultivation as an Alternative to the Biopolitics of Sexuality Self-management -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.