Haptic contagionKomel, Mirt (Avtor) dealismmaterialismhaptic studiespsychoanalysisDuring the pandemic there were many ways of handling the contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, most of them in haptic terms, or in terms of touch: masks, hand disinfection, social distancing, quarantines, (self)isolations. Touch thus became not only the privileged object of the new bio-politics, striving to preserve life at all costs, but also what was lost during the pandemic. To be sure, a loss of something we never had that even the vaccine, which promised a return to normal, but actually paved the way for a “brave new post-pandemic world,” could not rehabilitate. In short, one of the elements that radically changed with and in the (post-)pandemic world is precisely the elusive object of touch, which we propose to conceptually grasp through the coinage of the concept of its “mateReal hapticity.”20232024-01-10 09:52:00Članek v reviji153495UDK: 14ISSN pri članku: 0353-4510DOI: 10.3986/fv.44.3.05COBISS_ID: 180099331sl