{"title":"Paul B. Preciado","description":"Paul B. Preciado is the author of Can the Monster Speak?, Countersexual Manifesto, and Testo Junkie, among other books, and wrote and directed the film Orlando, My Political Biography. He lives in Paris.","products":[{"product_id":"dysphoria-mundi-a-diary-of-planetary-transition-paperback","title":"Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for centuries \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDysphoria Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul B. Preciado, best known for his 2013 cult classic \u003ci\u003eTesto Junkie\u003c\/i\u003e, has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking account of the societal convulsions that have ensued, Preciado tries to make sense of our times from within the swirl of a revolutionary present moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe central thesis of this monumental work is that dysphoria, to be understood properly, should not be seen as a mental illness but rather as the condition that defines our times. Dysphoria is an abyss that separates a patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist order hurtling toward its end from a new way of being that, until now, has been seen as unproductive and abnormal but is in fact the way out of our current predicament. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith echoes of visionaries such as William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker, Preciado's theoretical writing is propelled by lyric power while providing us with a critical toolbox full of new concepts that can guide our thinking and our actions: transition, cognitive emancipation, denormalization, disidentification, \"electronic heroin,\" digital coups, necro-kitsch. \u003ci\u003eDysphoria Mundi \u003c\/i\u003eis Preciado's most accessible and significant work to date, in which he makes sense of a world in ruins around us and maps a joyous, radical way forward.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376684859615,"sku":"9781644453322","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PT4t2Wlijk9781644453322.webp?v=1789221688"},{"product_id":"testo-junkie-sex-drugs-and-biopolitics-in-the-pharmacopornographic-era-paperback","title":"Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with \"spectacular\" results--\"and the gendered body will never be the same again\" (Jack Halberstam). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat constitutes a \"real\" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's \u003cem\u003eThe History of Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378970034399,"sku":"9781558618374","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1uU6Ssd7b19781558618374.webp?v=1789264892"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/paul-b-preciado.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}