Tag Archives: Beatriz Preciado

The shifting territories of the body

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

But what is a body? … For Spinoza, the individuality of a body is defined by the following: it’s when a certain composite or complex relation (I insist on that point, quite composite, very complex) of movement and rest is … Continue reading →

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Paul B. Preciado: Identity in transit

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

From Paul B. Preciado (Liberation 27/05/2016 – in translation), reflections on the radicalness of trans and migrant “identities”, identities that must be refused as fixed identities, identities that are rather lines of flight that put into question, contend with, mechanisms … Continue reading →

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Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share a text by Paul Beatriz Preciado, in translation, that was originally published in the french newspaper Liberation (26/09/2014): a critical reflection on feminism and more broadly on what Preciado calls “animalism” …

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The courage of being one’s self: Beatriz Preciado

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Sorana Inibrina

(Photograph by Joel Peter Witkin) The following is a translation of a text by Beatriz Preciado that originally appeared in the french newspaper Libération (21/11/2014) and was written on the occasion of a debate on courage organised by the festival … Continue reading →

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The revolution as trans/queer

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

(poster by Javi Larrauri) … only those who find themselves in opposition to the institutionalised Norm can play a fully critical role. In other words, only feminist self-consciousness and homosexual awareness [29] can give life to a vision of the … Continue reading →

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The rebellion of bodies: Beatriz Preciado

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

We have all been injured, profoundly.  We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.                                            Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs   What is … Continue reading →

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