Paul B. Preciado

FINALLY MADE IT. The trick with this one was to not read sentences more than twice (and ideally not more than once). Didn't have any idea what the fuck they were talking about? Fuck it, press on! I still can't use the word necropolitics in a sentence but I learned some interesting shit about the Pill being tested on PR women and I got the outlines of Preciado's gender theory.

And the interpersonal drama, and lots of details and intellectualizing about Preciado's sex life and drug use, and so on and so forth. I don't think that was the point, but you know what, it wasn't contrary to the point either, and I'm here for it.

Either the translator or Preciado himself does not know what "cis" means; I understood more when I realized that every occurrence of "cis woman" was supposed to be "dyadic female-assigned person." There's a limit to how much of the confusion between those two things you can chalk up to Preciado being in denial about being trans at the time he wrote it; some of those sentences just don't make sense otherwise.… (more)

Dildonics
Edit: okay so about 90% thru this book i was a little frustrated by how most of the latter third is purely a discussion of Deleuze which of course would have peaked my interest more if i had read him yet, but the final chapter (an addition to the 2018 edition i believe, an essay Preciado wrote in 2000) absolutely floored me. This book is one of the most intriguing, challenging, rewarding, and evocative texts i have read. It is exactly what i want from theory, if at times exhaustively hard to decipher. Please read it and talk to me about dildos and whether the countersexual future is one you’d like to strap into with me.… (more)