Dysphoria Mundi by Paul B Preciado

Dysphoria Mundi by Paul B Preciado

A revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for a millenium.

‘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 predicamentIf 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, author of The Argonauts

‘An important dissident of dualism.’
— Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex

‘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. Preciadio has that rare ability to lead the reader through familiar situations to unexpected conceptual insight. An essential thinker for the contemporary world.’
— McKenzie Wark, author of Reverse Cowgirl

‘Dysphoria, that profound unease of the soul, is revealed as the dominant emotion of our age, affecting the body, the planet and our relationships. Through philosophy and direct experience, Preciado radically expands our notion of power, from the force which oppresses us to the agency we possess in the service of our liberation.’
— James Bridle, author of Ways of Being

‘This 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.’
— Judith Butler

‘The philosopher of the future.’
— El País

‘Preciado is a revolutionary of the twenty-first century.’
— Le Nouvel Observateur

Paul B. Preciado is the author of Can the Monster Speak, An Apartment in Uranus, Counter-Sexual Manifesto and Testo Junkie, among other books, and wrote and directed the film Orlando, My Political Biography. He is the Director of the Institute for Planetary Transition at LUMA Arles, France. He was born in Spain and lives in France. Dysphoria Mundi is his third book to appear with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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ISBN 13	9781804271452
ISBN 10	1804271454
Title	Dysphoria Mundi
Author	Paul B Preciado
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Year published	2025-03-27
Number of pages	496
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