An Apartment on Uranus

Theorist Paul B. Preciado reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.

Auteur

Paul B. Preciado is the author of Counter-Sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press), Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics (The Feminist Press) and Pornotopia (Zone Books), for which he was awarded the Sade Prize in France. He was Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and Director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017 he was the Curator of Public Programmes of documenta 14. He is currently the Resident Philosopher at the Centre Pompidou and lives in Paris, France.

Texte du rabat

Preciado looks back on a period of gender transition, contextualised in relation to the political and sexual discourses of recent years and situated in Karl Heinrich Ulrich's nineteenth century theorising of uranism and a third sex. Virginie Despentes provides the foreword.

Résumé
In this bold and transgressive book, Preciado recounts his transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition.