Paul B. Preciado, Dysphoria mundi, 2023

“Since my desire to live outside the normative prescriptions of the hetero-patriarchal binary society has been considered a clinical pathology called ‘gender dysphoria’, it seemed interesting to me to think of the current world situation as a generalised dysphoria”. “Dysphoria Mundi” is a diary of planetary transition that here takes the form of a mutant text, made up of non-fiction, philosophy, poetry and autofiction. Preciado, sick with Covid and locked up in his flat, draws on all genres to narrate a world in which the different clocks have synchronised to the rhythm of the virus, but also of racism, feminicide, global warming, and describes the modalities of a revolutionary present: not something that happened in a mythical past or will happen in a messianic future, but something that is happening. An essential book for understanding the present and even more so for entering the future.