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Netflix, Pets and a dildo. The value of ensouling
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 11 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the real crisis of our time is not anxiety, but disconnection?
In a world of substitutes-streaming instead of shared stories, pets instead of people, pleasure without presence-we have slowly replaced contact with convenience. Not out of malice, but adaptation.
Netflix offers narrative without friction.
A dildo offers pleasure without witness.
These are not objects of shame.
They are symbols of a culture learning how to cope.
Netflix, Pets, and a Dildo is not a self-help book, nor a moral critique of technology. It is a quiet, lyrical inquiry into how contemporary life has outsourced touch, ritual, and embodied meaning-and what that absence is doing to us.
Moving between short essays, poetic fragments, and intimate observations, Juanjo Martà Noguera explores the rise of good enough forms of connection, the erosion of bodily language, and the normalization of a loneliness that no longer feels dramatic-only functional.
Ensouling appears here not as a solution or ideology, but as a question:
what would it mean to return to the body, to gesture, to presence, in a world designed to minimize exposure?
This book does not offer prescriptions.
It offers pause.
Written for readers who sense that something is missing but refuse easy answers, this is a work for those who want to slow down, regain bodily awareness, and recover meaning without performance or promise.
Includes a curated playlist and multimedia resources to accompany the reading.
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