Preciado, Paul B.

Countersexual Manifesto (Critical Life Studies)

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ISBN 13:: 9780231175630
author:: Preciado, Paul B.
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Columbia University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2018
Pages:: 240
Dimensions:: 21.6 x 14 centimetres (0.30 kg)
Genre:: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Movements
Condition:: New
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Countersexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado is a provocative work that challenges conventional notions of gender, sexuality, and desire. This performative literary text offers a radical call to action, seeking to overthrow all constraints on the body and its uses. Preciado presents mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution, arguing that genitalia should be seen as technological objects rather than natural entities. He also provides step-by-step instructions for dismantling the heterocentric social contract and calls into question the work of prominent theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway. With its meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, popular culture, and a new introduction by Preciado, this book offers a bold vision for sexual emancipation and a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication.

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