Future Sex: Technology, Desire, and the New Rules of Engagement (the Forum)

In a year of heated discussions about campus rape culture and street harassment, the merits of sex positivism, and the implications of trans-identity for feminism, we ask what is the future of sex and sexuality? Have the rules of sexual engagement changed in the twenty-first century and has the discipline of philosophy managed to keep up? How do we start to think afresh about desire, after Freud and into the future? And what is the future for sex as our conceptions of the body are reframed by culture, bionics, and even the law?

Speakers
Katherine Angel, Author and Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kingston University London
Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Teaching Fellow in Political Theory, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Chair
Shahidha Bari, Lecturer in Romanticism in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

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