An Apartment on Uranus
PAUL B. PRECIADOThis book, a chronicle of a crossing, recounts the process of transforming from Beatriz into Paul B. during which the author transformed his body & subjectivity through the self-administration of testosterone. Yet An Apartment on Uranus is not simply an account of gender transitioning, but rather of a global transition: Preciado analyses other processes of political, cultural & sexual transition, reflecting on socio-political issues including the rise of neo-fascism in Europe, the migrant crisis, the Zapatista struggle in Mexico, the fight for Catalonian independence, Julian Assange, sex work, Trump's America, the harassment of trans children, the technological appropriation of the uterus, & the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come.
AN APARTMENT ON URANUS is a bold, transgressive & necessary book which takes a personal experience as a starting point to question the foundations of a society which excludes heterodoxy & proclaims it deviancy or illness, putting forward a radical argument for a new gender politics.