Paul B. Preciado
Paul B. Preciado (born Beatriz Preciado, 11 September 1970, Burgos, Spain) is a writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexual politics. An Honors Graduate and Fulbright Fellow, he earned a M.A. in Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School for Social Research in New York where he studied with Agnes Heller and Jacques Derrida. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University.
His first book, Counter-Sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press) was acclaimed by French critics as “the red book of queer theory” and became a key reference for European queer and trans activism. He is the author of Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics (The Feminist Press) and Pornotopia (Zone Books) for which he was awarded the Sade Price in France.
He has been Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and Director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) from 2011 to 2014. He has taught Philosophy of the Body and Transfeminist Theory at Université Paris VIII-Saint Denis and at New York University. From 2014 to 2017 he was Curator of Public Programs of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens). He is a writer in residency at the LUMA Foundation, Arlès, France.
Paul B. Preciado lives between Athens, Paris, and Barcelona. (2019)
Publications
Books
- Beatriz Preciado, Manifeste contra-sexuel, trans. Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Paris: Balland, 2000, 157 pp. (French)
- Beatriz Preciado, Manifiesto contra-sexual: prácticas subversivas de identidad sexual, trans. Julio Diaz and Carolina Meloni, Madrid: Opera Prima, 2002, 176 pp. (Spanish)
- Beatriz Preciado, Manifesto contra-sessuale, Il Dito e la Luna, 2002, 160 pp. [1] (Italian)
- Beatriz Preciado, Kontrasexuelles Manifest, afterw. Marie-Hélène Bourcier, trans. Stephan Geene, Katja Diefenbach and Tara Herbst, Berlin: b-books, 2003, 180 pp. [2] (German)
- Beatriz Preciado, Manifesto contrassexual: práticas subversivas de identidade sexual, trans. Maria Paula Gurgel Ribeiro, São Paulo: n-1, 2014, 223 pp. Review: Ribeiro & Teofilo (RLAGG). (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Paul B. Preciado, Countersexual Manifesto, trans. Kevin Gerry Dunn, forew. Jack Halberstam, Columbia University Press, 2018, xvi+216 pp, EPUB. (English)
- Beatriz Preciado, with Del LaGrace Volcano, Sex Works 1979-2005: From Love Bites to Postporn, Tübingen: Konkursbuch, 2006, 159 pp. Book of photographs by Del LaGrace Volcano. (English)
- Beatriz Preciado, Testo junkie: sexe, drogue et biopolitique, Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle, 2008, 400 pp. [3] [4] (French)
- Beatriz Preciado, Testo yonqui, Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2008, 324 pp. (Spanish)
- Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, trans. Bruce Benderson, New York: Feminist Press, 2013, 427 pp, EPUB. (English)
- Paul B. Preciado, Testo tossico: sesso, droghe e biopolitiche nell'era farmacopornografica, trans. Elena Rafanelli, Rome: Fandango, 2015, 430 pp. (Italian)
- Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drogen und Biopolitik in der Ära der Pharmapornografie, trans. Stephan Geene, Berlin: b-books, 2016, 455 pp. [5] (German)
- Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: sexo, drogas e biopolítica na era farmacopornográfica, trans. Maria Paula Gurgel Ribeiro with Verônica Daminelli Fernandes, São Paulo: n-1, 2018, 448 pp. [6] (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopía: arquitectura y sexualidad en Playboy durante la guerra fría, Barcelona: Anagrama, 2010, 220 pp. (Spanish)
- Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopie: Playboy et l'invention de la sexualité multimédia, trans. Serge Mestre and Beatriz Preciado, Paris: Climats, 2011, 241 pp. (French)
- Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia. Playboy: architettura e sessualità, trans. Elena Rafanelli, Rome: Fandango, 2011, 237 pp. (Italian)
- Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia: Architektur, Sexualität und Multimedia im "Playboy", trans. Bettina Engels and Karen Genschow, Berlin: Wagenbach, 2012, 165 pp. (German)
- Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics, New York: Zone Books, 2014, 303 pp. Reviews: Power (Avery Rev), Turner (LRB), Cleasby (review31), Stevens (Consumption), Lui (J Arch Edu). [7] (English)
- Paul B. Preciado, Un appartement sur Uranus: chroniques de la traversée, pref. Virginie Despentes, Paris: Grasset, 2019, 334 pp. (French)
- Un apartamento en Urano: crónicas del cruce, intro. Virginie Despentes, Barcelona: Anagrama, 2019, 309 pp. (Spanish)
- An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing, forew. Virginie Despentes, trans. Charlotte Mandell, Semiotext(e), 2020, 263 pp. [8] (English)
Selected articles
- Beatriz Preciado, "Museum, Urban Detritus and Pornography", Zehar 64, 2008, 28-36. (English)
- Beatriz Preciado, "Museo, basura urbana y pornografía", Zehar 64, 2008, pp 37-46. (Spanish)
- Paul B. Preciado, "Museu, lixo urbano e pornografia", trans. Bryan Willian Axt , Periódicus 8:1, Nov 2017-Apr 2018, pp 20-31. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Beatriz Preciado, "Pharmaco-pornographic Politics: Towards a New Gender Ecology", trans. Yvette Vinke, parallax 14:1, 2008, pp 105-117. (English)
- Paul B. Preciado, "Letter from a trans man to the old sexual regime", trans. Simon Pleasance, Texte zur Kunst, 22 Jan 2018. (English)
Interviews
- Ricky Tucker, "Pharmacopornography: An Interview with Beatriz Preciado", The Paris Review, 4 Dec 2013. (English)
