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An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing

An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing

Preciado, Paul B.
Despentes, Virginie

Paperback

Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1635901138
ISBN13: 9781635901139
Publisher: Semiotexte
Published: Jan 28 2020
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A dissident of the gender-sex binary system reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.

Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the third sex and the rights of those who love differently. Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. My trans condition is a new form of uranism, he writes. I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.

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