Dysphoria Mundi

“Preciado’s monumental work brings the commitments of the bibliophile to bear on a time and a world now irreversibly out of joint. Drawing on theories of language, mind, technology, immunology to retell a story of this world, Preciado’s work more firmly shatters the binaries responsible for the destruction of love and futurity. Here a song, there a poem, this is thinking across both genre and gender, undoing us in the best sense, and fighting against the worst forms of undoing.” –Judith Butler

“How lucky we are to have Paul Preciado as companion and interpreter of all we’ve just been through, with a global pandemic–luckier still is the gift of his revolutionary optimism, which runs through his thorough, gritty analysis of our current predicament. If you’re tired of ricocheting between neofascists and doomer dudes, here comes Dysphoria Mundi to recast our situation as ‘the most beautiful (or devastating) collective adventure we have ever embarked on, ’ and give us new strategies and inspiration to reconceptualize–and stay on–the ride.”–Maggie Nelson

“Paul Preciado’s singular genius is for writing vividly within the immediacy of everyday life, and then also unraveling from there the deeper historical forces that shape those moments. In Dysphoria Mundi we learn how the invisible traces of a virus thread bodies and societies together, lacing us into shifting regimes of power and commodification. Preciado has that rare ability to lead the reader through familiar situations to unexpected conceptual insight. An essential thinker for the contemporary world.”–McKenzie Wark

Paul B. Preciado is the author of Can the Monster Speak?, Countersexual Manifesto, and Testo Junkie, among other books, and wrote and directed the film Orlando, My Political Biography. He lives in Paris.