Paul B. Preciado, Manifesto controsessuale, 2019

Reversing all constraints on what can be done to the body and with the body, Paul B. Preciado lays out new principles for a new counter-sexual revolution that recognises genitals as technological objects and offers a veritable manual for dismantling the heterocentric sexual contract step by step. Supported by the studies of Derrida, Foucault, Haraway, Butler and Deleuze, the author digs even deeper into the deconstruction of the presumed naturalness of identity, and starting from the assertion that the dildo precedes the penis – in the history of sexuality, the artifice, therefore, appears before nature – he lays the foundations for new practices of sexual liberation. Never before has a book managed to look so much like a high-tech vibrator, and rarely has intellectual terrorism been so rigorously documented. ‘Countersexual Manifesto’ is an outrageous book, a performative literary text, an essay on trans theory and a call to action. It marks a point of no return in gender studies, and who knows, even in the intimacy of those who read it.