Countersexual Manifesto, Paperback - Paul B. Preciado
About The .. He is curator of public programs for the largest international European art and culture exhibition, documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel).
He calls theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway to task for not going nearly far enough in their attempts to deconstruct the naturalization of normative identities and behaviors. The Manifesto is now available in English translation for its twentieth anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado. He lives between Paris, Barcelona, and Athens. Preciado's books in English include Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2013) and Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics (2014). Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. He calls for a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication, of bio-printers and "dildonics," and he invokes countersexuality's roots in the history of sex toys, pornography, and drag in order to rupture the supposedly biological foundations of the heterocentric regime. He is curator of public programs for the largest international European art and culture exhibition, documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel). Preciado is a philosopher, curator, and transgender activist. Kevin Gerry Dunn is a translator of Spanish-language fiction and academic writing on gender, art, and immigration. His claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. Countersexual Manifesto will disrupt feminism and queer theory and scandalize us all with its hyperbolic but deadly serious defiance of everything we've been told about sex.About the AuthorPaul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire. Preciado's claim that the dildo precedes the penis--that artifice, not nature, comes first in the history of sexuality--forms the basis of his demand for new practices of sexual emancipation. 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 heterocentric social contract. His recent translations include works by Josefina Fernández, Ramón Arturo Gutiérrez, and Cristian Perfumo. DescriptionCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Jack Halberstam is visiting professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University and is the author of a number of books, including most recently, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018).
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Countersexual Manifesto, Paperback - Paul B. Preciado
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