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The cultural change denominated as “the new normal” goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited person-to-person 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 intimacy decreases while virtual reality expands and alterity declines while artificial intelligence emerges, 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—the administration of self-control societies so politically correct that repressed desire for otherness only finds a simulation of its satisfaction with the forced abnormality, outrageousness, and violence of mainstream porn—, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more.

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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. Braddy’s 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 Jon’s printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, among others.

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