Dartmouth College Dartmouth Digital Commons Dartmouth College Master’s Theses and Essays Theses, Dissertations, and Graduate Essays Spring 2021 Spaces for Becomings? Heterotopic Fictions in Preciado’s Testo yonqui Caroline King
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[email protected]. Spaces for Becomings? Heterotopic Fictions in Preciado’s Testo yonqui This revolution is going to be about love, about changing desires…Pase una cuestión de cambiar de deseos, de transformar los deseos. C’est la révolution de l’amour. – Paul Preciado, “Ouverture of Something that Never Ended”1 I. Introduction Referring to dissolving gender boundaries, the epigraph above is spoken in a short film produced by Gucci. While lounging in her Roman home wearing modern lace pajamas, transgender actor Silvia Calderoni turns on the television to see Paul Preciado, an internationally recognized philosopher from Spain. As Preciado speaks about superseding sexual binaries through individual transformation and experimentation, he suddenly turns to address Silvia through the screen: “But you know what I’m talking about, Silvia…” he says, studying her earnest face.