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Countersexual Manifesto (Hardcover)
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Countersexual Manifesto (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Life Studies
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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 heterocentric social contract. 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. 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.
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. His claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous
readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. The
Manifesto is now available in English translation for its twentieth
anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado. 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.
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