PRECIADO B. PAUL

Είμαι το τέρας που σας μιλά
Όταν θα έχετε κόψει όλα τα δέντρα και θα έχετε σκάψει όλα τα βουνά, όταν θα έχετε αναλύσει όλα μας τα όνειρα, δεν θα σας έχει μείνει τίποτα άλλο να διαλύσετε. Η Γη θα είναι τότε μια χωματερή, ένα τεράστιο διεμφυλικό σώμα, διαμελισμένο και ρημαγμένο. Τα σώματα των αποικιοκρατών και τα σώματά σας, αγαπητοί ψυχαναλυτές, θα θαφτούν μαζί με τα τρανς όργανα που θα έχετε αποσπάσει από μας. Αλλά τα όργανα που δεν έχουμε δεν θα μπορέσουν ποτέ να θαφτούν. Τα ουτοπικά μας όργανα θα ζουν αιώνια. Θα είναι οι μαχητές των συνόρων. (Από την παρουσίαση στο...
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(P/B) AN APARTMENT ON URANUS
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love differently' . Following in Ulrichs's footsteps, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he can live, free of the modern power taxonomies of race, gender, class or disability. In this bold and transgressive book, Preciado recounts his transformation from Beatriz into Paul B.,...
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(P/B) TESTO JUNKIE
For one year Beatriz Preciado gave doses of testosterone to herself every day. She writes 'I don't take testosterone to transform myself into a man but to betray what society has wanted to make of me...to feel a form of pleasure that is post-pornographic, to add a molecular prostheses to my low-tech transgendered identity.' This is a diary of transgression; Preciado's record of the use of herself as a lab rat. It recounts the defiant 'misuse' of a pharmaceutical product normally strictly controlled and investigates gender politics. (From t...
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(P/B) COUNTERSEXUAL MANIFESTO
Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire. Preciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for dismantling the hetero...
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