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lapetiteaubergine's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
suzyreadsbooks's review against another edition
2.5
“Allow me to reassure you: I have had surgery; carefully, over the course of lengthy political, practical and theoretical sessions, I surgically removed the epistemic apparatus that diagnoses my body and my behaviors as pathological.
What of you, esteemed psychoanalysts, have you had surgery?”
I wanted more context in the book!!! I was drawn to this because of the situation surrounding the speech (Preciado spoke about gender at the École de la Cause Freudienne’s annual conference and was booed off stage, so this is the full speech he planned to read) and I just wish the actual book had told us more about that. At 65% there’s a footnote mentioning some scattered boos from the crowd, but it doesn’t tell us how far he got before he had to leave, which would’ve been interesting because I don’t think the speech really escalated after 65% or anything.
I truly don’t ever think about psychoanalysts or their views of gender so it was disturbing to learn more about how the whole profession just refuses to view trans identity as valid in any way.
The actual speech itself was fine I guess. fairly unremarkable from a gender theory perspective, but clearly already challenging enough for the conference at hand.
It seems like it would’ve been a very long talk?? There was also a weird comment about trans bodies "being Africa"??
krhe's review against another edition
challenging
dark
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tense
medium-paced
4.5
Dilo más alto.
lionjelly's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
zcsforbes's review against another edition
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medium-paced
5.0
this is exactly, EXACTLY, what i've been needing to read . A Manifesto on Transgenderism , Transsexuality and the reality of existing as a trans person within a world where the norm is sustained by violence (necropolitics!!)
I need to come back to this review but yeah what a banger, page after page
I need to come back to this review but yeah what a banger, page after page
freekcore's review against another edition
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informative
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medium-paced
5.0
hausofrhetorika's review against another edition
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5.0
Brutal. Cantarle el precio al psicoanálisis y al fascismo nunca se vio tan chingón. Ese ligero tesón de esperanza al final me apapachó, aunque poco, frente al horrible mundo del afuera que se niega a adaptarse.