An Apartment on Uranus

Paul B. Preciado, Charlotte Mandell

• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781913097073
• eBook ISBN:
  9781913097103
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Literature

Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love differently'. Following in Ulrichs's footsteps, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he can live, free of the modern power taxonomies of race, gender, class or disability. In this bold and transgressive book, Preciado recounts his transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition, reflecting on socio-political issues including the rise of neo-fascism in Europe, the criminalization of migrants, the harassment of trans children, the technological appropriation of the uterus, and the role artists and museums might play in the writing of a new social contract. A stepchild of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Preciado argues, with courage and conviction, for a planetary revolution of all living beings against the norm.

CONTENTS

1. TITLE PAGE
2. DEDICATION
3. EPIGRAPH
4. PREFACE BY
   VIRGINIE DESPENTES
5. INTRODUCTION:
   AN APARTMENT ON URANUS
6. WE SAY REVOLUTION
7. WHO DEFENDS THE QUEER CHILD?
8. POLITICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION
9. CANDY CRUSH REHAB
10. MONKEYS OF THE REPUBLIC
11. NECROPOLITICS — FRENCH STYLE
12. WOMEN’S RIGHT TO (SEX) WORK
13. DECLARING A UTERUS STRIKE
14. THE BULLET
15. ONFRAY IN THE FRAY OF GENDER CONFUSION
16. LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
17. AMNESIC FEMINISM
18. MARCOS FOREVER
19. STATISTICS ARE STRONGER THAN LOVE
20. THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF A BREAK-UP
21. FEMINISM IS NOT HUMANISM
22. ‘SNUFF’ SOVEREIGNTY
23. THE COURAGE TO BE YOURSELF
24. TRANS CATALONIA
25. PEDRO LEMEBEL, YOUR SOUL WILL NEVER GIVE UP
26. VALENTINE’S DAY IS CRAP
27. THE NEOLIBERAL MUSEUM
28. NECROMODERNITY
29. CALLING THE ‘AJAYUS’
30. CHEMICAL CONDOMS
31. ORLANDO ON THE ROAD
32. STRAYS
33. IN THE ARMS OF THE RODINA MAT
34. AN OTHER VOICE
35. YOUR WHEELCHAIR TURNS ME ON
36. BEIRUT MON AMOUR
37. AGORAPHILIA
38. WHO IS THE GR...

Table of contents

• PRAISE
• TITLE PAGE
• DEDICATION
• EPIGRAPH
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE BY VIRGINIE DESPENTES
• INTRODUCTION: AN APARTMENT ON URANUS
• WE SAY REVOLUTION
• WHO DEFENDS THE QUEER CHILD?
• POLITICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION
• CANDY CRUSH REHAB
• MONKEYS OF THE REPUBLIC
• NECROPOLITICS – FRENCH STYLE
• WOMEN’S RIGHT TO (SEX) WORK
• DECLARING A UTERUS STRIKE
• THE BULLET
• ONFRAY IN THE FRAY OF GENDER CONFUSION
• LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
• AMNESIC FEMINISM
• MARCOS FOREVER
• STATISTICS ARE STRONGER THAN LOVE
• THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF A BREAK-UP
• FEMINISM IS NOT A HUMANISM
• ‘SNUFF’ SOVEREIGNTY
• THE COURAGE TO BE YOURSELF
• TRANS CATALONIA
• PEDRO LEMEBEL, YOUR SOUL WILL NEVER GIVE UP
• VALENTINE’S DAY IS CRAP
• THE NEOLIBERAL MUSEUM
• NECROMODERNITY
• CALLING THE ‘AJAYUS’
• CHEMICAL CONDOMS
• ORLANDO ON THE ROAD
• STRAYS
• IN THE ARMS OF THE RODINA MAT
• AN OTHER VOICE
• YOUR WHEELCHAIR TURNS ME ON
• BEIRUT MON AMOUR
• AGORAPHILIA
• WHO IS THE GREEK DEBT KEEPING WARM?
• A SCHOOL FOR ALAN
• FORGETTING THE IDEA OF BEING SPECIAL
• ETYMOLOGIES
• HOMAGE TO THE UNKNOWN NANNY
• JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE BED
• SLEEPLESS NIGHT
• THE NEW CATASTROPHE OF ASIA MINOR
• IDENTITY IN TRANSIT
• MY BODY DOES NOT EXIST
• JOURNEY TO LESBOS
• FIRST NAMES: PAUL BEATRIZ, REQUEST 34/2016
• MY TRANS BODY IS AN EMPTY HOUSE
• FOR MARX, HAPPINESS IS POLITICAL EMANCIPATION
• THE PLACE THAT WELCOMES YOU
• DESTRUCTION WAS MY BEATRIZ
• ATHENS TEEN SPIRIT
• PACK UP YOUR THINGS
• OUR SCREENS ARE WATCHING EACH OTHER
• AFTER THE BOOK, LET’S PRINT ON FLESH
• HISTORY’S BACKSIDE
• SAN FRANCISCO, THE ‘CLITORIS OF AMERICA’
• THE STATELESS EXHIBITION
• I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE
• OUR BISON
• INTERSEXICIDE
• THE SOUTH DOES NOT EXIST
• TWEETY BIRD HAS A MEETING WITH HISTORY
• MY PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE ILL-BORN
• DEMOCRATS AGAINST DEMOCRACY
• MOVING BODIES
• CELEBRATIONS
• I DON’T WANT A PRESIDENT
• THE SON
• LETTER FROM A TRANS MAN TO THE SEXUAL ANCIEN RÉGIME
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT