Countersexual Manifesto

by Paul B. Preciado

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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 show more 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. show less

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Esse livro é tão bom, mas tão bom que não consegui parar de ler e o terminei em poucas horas. Ele está dividido da seguinte forma:
- Primeiramente o livro começa explicitando o que é contrassexualidade que preza pela ausência de gênero guiada por uma veia desconstrutivista, para logo depois enumerar seus princípios na forma de artigos e finalizar com um modelo de contrato contrassexual onde o indíviduo reitera sua condição de trabalhador do cu.
- Em Práticas de inversão contrassexual há uma série ilustrativa de práticas da contrassexualidade a partir da subversão dos órgãos sexuais e suas reações biopolíticas.
- Em Teorias há a fundamentação filosófica a partir de Derrida do que representa o dildo na show more contrassexualidade, além de uma genealogia do orgasmo, do dildo e da intersexualização com ecos de Foucault e Judith Butler.
- No Exercício de leitura contrassexual temos da filosofia como modo superior de dar o cu onde se explica a homossexualidade molecular de Deleuze e Guattari a partir do Barão de Charlus do Em Busca do Tempo Perdido de Proust.
- Finalmente, como anexos, temos a etimologia do dildo e um pequeno relato do surgimento da butch no pós-guerra americano.

Além do conteúdo excepcional, a edição brasileira é de um requinte acachapante por ter inserido entre as páginas um cu táctil onde você pode colocar o seu dedo ou qualquer coisa pontiaguda que lhe apetecer.

Nota: Preciado parece inclinada a tentar saber se a apreciação de fist-fucking pelo Foucault teria sido fundamental para a elaboração de seus conceitos de biopolítica. Rá!
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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.

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Díaz, Julio (Translator)
Diefenbach, Katja (Translator)
Dunn, Kevin Gerry (Translator)
Geene, Stephan (Translator)
Halberstam, Jack (Foreword)
Herbst, Tara (Translator)
Meloni, Carolina (Translator)

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Countersexual Manifesto
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Manifiesto contrasexual
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Spanish

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Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Sociology, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, LGBTQ+
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305.3Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial group - Age, Gender, EthnicityPeople by gender or sex
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HQ12 .P7313Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenSexual life
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