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Countersexual Manifesto COUNTERSEXUAL MANIFESTO CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook, and Myra J. Hird, series editors The core concept of critical life studies strikes at the heart of the dilemma that contemporary critical theory has been circling around: namely, the negotiation of the human, its residues, a priori configurations, the persis- tence of humanism in structures of thought, and the figure of life as a con- stitutive focus for ethical, political, ontological, and epistemological ques- tions. Despite attempts to move quickly through humanism (and organicism) to more adequate theoretical concepts, such haste has impeded the analysis of how the humanist concept of life is preconfigured or immanent to the supposedly new conceptual leap. The Critical Life Studies series thus aims to destabilize critical theory’s central figure, life—no longer should we rely upon it as the horizon of all constitutive meaning but instead begin with life as the problematic of critical theory and its reconceptualization as the condition of possibility for thought. By reframing the notion of life critically— outside the orbit and primacy of the human and subversive to its organic forms— the series aims to foster a more expansive, less parochial engagement with critical theory. Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives (2016) Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook, eds., Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (2017) Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (2017) Vincent Bruyere, Perishability Fatigue: Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay (2018) COUNTERSEXUAL MANIFESTO PAUL B. PRECIADO TRANSLATED BY KEVIN GERRY DUNN FOREWORD BY JACK HALBERSTAM Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup .columbia .edu Copyright © 2018 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Preciado, Paul B., author. Title: Countersexual manifesto : subverting gender identities / Paul B. Preciado. Other titles: Manifiesto contrasexuali. English Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] | Series: Critical life studies | Translation of: Manifiesto contrasexual. Barcelona : Anagrama, 2011. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018016568| ISBN 9780231175623 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231175630 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231548687 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Sex— Philosophy. | Gender identity. Classification: LCC HQ12 .P7313 2018 | DDC 305.3—dc23 LC record available at https: //lccn .loc .gov /2018016568 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid- free paper. Printed in the United States of America Manifeste contra- sexuel was published in French in 2000. It was translated into Spanish as Manifesto contrasexual in 2002, with substantial additions and updates by the author. This English translation is based principally on the Spanish text, with reference to the French and in collaboration with the author, who has updated and approved this edition. The author wrote the introduction in English on the occasion of this translation. Cover art: Paul B. Preciado Cover design: Catherine Casalino For Monique Wittig, Arizona For petit Q, Las Vegas In memory of Nathalie Magnan CONTENTS Foreword by Jack Halberstam ix Introduction 1 1 Countersexual Society 19 Principles of Countersexual Society 32 (Sample) Countersexual Contract 40 2 Countersexual Reversal Practices 41 Dildotectonics 41 Practice I: Ron Athey’s Solar Anus 44 Practice II: Masturbating an Arm 48 Practice III: How to Pleasure a Dildo-Head 52 3 Theories 57 Derrida’s Scissors: The Logic of the Dildo 57 Butler’s Vibrator: A Brief Genealogy of Sex Toys and Sexual Prostheses 74 Money Makes Sex: The Industrialization of the Sexes 100 Haraway’s Prosthesis: Sex Technologies 120 viii Y Contents 4 Countersexual Reading Exercises 141 On Philosophy as a Better Way of Doin’ It in the Ass—Deleuze and “Molecular Homosexuality” 141 Dildo 161 Prosthesis, Mon Amour 164 Author’s Note 173 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 177 Bibliography 191 Index 201 FOREWORD We Are the Revolution! Or, the Power of the Prosthesis Jack Halberstam hen you sign Paul Preciado’s countersexual con- tract, you agree to renounce your status as a natu- Wral man/woman and you relinquish all privileges that may be extended to you from “within the framework of the naturalized heterocentric regime.” The new contract that you enter into, a countersexual contract that comes both after and before nature, situates you as “an anus and an anal worker” and inscribes you into the order of the dildo.This prosthetic order, an alternative orientation to power, pleasure, knowledge, and desire, is not a system whose time is yet to come; it is a structuring con- dition of the world we already inhabit. As Preciado says in his new introduction, doubling down on the terms of a manifesto he wrote as a young differently gendered person: “It doesn’t start with a call for revolution, but with the realization that we are the revolution that is already taking place.” We are the revolution that is already taking place! You can feel the energy in the sentence itself rippling through you as you read. Assume the position, man the barricades—or is that non- binary the barricades, trans* the barricades— oh hell, just pull them all down. We are the revolution because the revolution is in us, it will become us and it will live on after us, because of x Y Foreword us. This “us” is not a casual first person plural; rather, it is the grammar of a new order that Preciado calls “somatic commu- nism,” a way of being, moving, and changing that resides within the ability to “care and proliferate, connect and multiply.” Like a queer character who has wandered out of Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères, Preciado’s dildo-bearing countersexual butch exists beyond the “heterosexual contract” and makes open warfare on the so- called natural world. This is not a battle fought with soldiers and tanks; it is epistemological warfare in which the butch must be recognized not as an anachronism, a failed copy, a sad imitation of men, but as part of a new postwar indus- trial landscape in which soldiers, housewives, and Hollywood actors all deploy prosthetics to try to cover up the shattered land- scape of the natural world. All that is solid has been glued together in this world, all that glitters has been painted gold, and while the butch gets sacrificed on the altar of the unnatural, the soldiers get fitted with artificial limbs, the housewives buy dish- washers, and TV circulates impossible images of beautiful doomed people. The countersexual is the figure who refuses the cover- up and exposes their own plastic reality. Written in the waning years of the twentieth century but only now translated into English, this early work by Preciado finds shortcuts around the interminable debates about essentialism versus construction, performativity versus realness, and agency versus production. And, with admirable brevity, wit, and sophis- tication, the text offers readers an eclectic version of queer the- ory that builds more on Deleuze than Foucault but that also refuses to settle into an orthodox relation to Deleuze. Indeed, one chapter of the Countersexual Manifesto offers a fairly hard- hitting critique of Deleuze and, in the tradition of Gayatri Spi- vak’s critique of Deleuze and Foucault in “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” Preciado interrogates what Deleuze actually means Foreword Z xi when he writes things like “Homosexuality is the truth of love.” Spivak proposed that Deleuze and Foucault invoked workers or proletarians without ever allowing them to speak for themselves within post- structuralist intellectual discourse. Preciado, in the context of the 1990s in France where identity politics were seen as gauche and simplistic and where the language of molecular- ity prevailed, pushed back on the unquestioned use of homosex- uality and transsexuality as metaphors in French theoretical discourse. Refusing to abstract the sexual practices upon which his own text depends, Preciado recognized and named the very different stakes involved in claiming the space of homosexuality or transsexuality rather than just invoking its abstract form of critique— especially in the hyperpatriarchal systems of French academia. Just as Deleuze described a nomadism without nomads, a process of becoming woman or animal that is not about actual women or animals, so he called upon a transversal experience of homosexuality without actually needing to engage in homosexual behavior. Preciado offers a critique of this eva- sion of identity politics without plunging into the quagmire of identity himself. And yet, more than Butler, way more than Deleuze, and certainly more explicitly than Foucault, Preciado summons, inhabits and celebrates, claims, names, and joins the queer identities and communities and collectivities about and with whom he writes— these queer subjects include butches explicitly here but also “the intersexed, the crip, the gender-queer, the non- white, the trans.” Building his manifesto through engagement with the work of Foucault and Deleuze, but also offering a critique of these theorists via the kinetic power of the thought of Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and especially Monique Wittig, Preciado cuts to the chase. Refusing the purity of a lesbian feminist utopia imagined through matriarchy, but also refusing the mastery of xii Y Foreword a purely abstract account of power, Preciado offers an early take on biopolitical sex and begins the work of revealing how the epis- temic regimes within which heterosexuality appears as the nat- ural order of things have already collapsed. In their wake, we find an ideological landscape littered with the debris of a system in decline, dying but not dead, and continuing to spark the right circuits that allow for the impression of functionality. This is what Preciado means by the “slow temporality in which sexual institutions don’t appear to have ever undergone any changes.” Think here of Hal in2001: A Space Odyssey.
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