{"title":"Paul B. Preciado","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul B. Preciado\u003c\/strong\u003e offers provocative and thought-provoking works that challenge conventional ideas about identity, sexuality, and power structures. Their writing blends philosophy, feminist theory, and personal narrative to explore the shifting boundaries of gender and body politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect intellectually rigorous texts that dissect contemporary social norms through a critical lens, often inviting reflection on culture, technology, and desire. Preciado's work is essential for anyone interested in expanding their understanding of queer theory and education.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"countersexual-manifesto-by-paul-b-preciado-9780231175630","title":"Countersexual Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCountersexual Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step 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 naturalisation of normative identities and behaviours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreciado'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. The \u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e is now available in English translation for its twentieth anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCountersexual Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e will disrupt feminism and queer theory and scandalise us all with its hyperbolic but deadly serious defiance of everything we've been told about sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470344208620,"sku":"9780231175630","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231175630-countersexual-manifesto.jpg?v=1775216810"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/paul-b-preciado.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}