jany_wants_a_cracker's review against another edition
4.0
i wish i had read the counter sexual manifesto befor the testo junkie. its at the same time a phenomenal work of philosophie (as for the middle part) and incredibly camp (as the first chapter(s)). for me that worked well, tho i have to admit that i wouldnt have liked it if it wasnt for my pre liking of preciado as an author, it lacks in emotionality that usually draws in when reading essays and philosophical works of preciado and which i think for an early work such as the manifesto is a plus point hence it explains away some of the origins when it comes to philosophical vocabular such as "technologie" per focault.
charliej99's review against another edition
4.0
Dildonics<3 hehe. Will do a write-up later.
Edit: okay so about 90% thru this book i was a little frustrated by how most of the latter third is purely a discussion of Deleuze which of course would have peaked my interest more if i had read him yet, but the final chapter (an addition to the 2018 edition i believe, an essay Preciado wrote in 2000) absolutely floored me. This book is one of the most intriguing, challenging, rewarding, and evocative texts i have read. It is exactly what i want from theory, if at times exhaustively hard to decipher. Please read it and talk to me about dildos and whether the countersexual future is one you’d like to strap into with me.
Edit: okay so about 90% thru this book i was a little frustrated by how most of the latter third is purely a discussion of Deleuze which of course would have peaked my interest more if i had read him yet, but the final chapter (an addition to the 2018 edition i believe, an essay Preciado wrote in 2000) absolutely floored me. This book is one of the most intriguing, challenging, rewarding, and evocative texts i have read. It is exactly what i want from theory, if at times exhaustively hard to decipher. Please read it and talk to me about dildos and whether the countersexual future is one you’d like to strap into with me.
meganmilks's review against another edition
4.0
Weird - fun - humorously over-the-top. A theory of the dildo as countersexual prosthetic technology (countering the perception of the dildo as necessarily phallic, imitative of the penis). "All is dildo. And all becomes orifice." Very queer, very trans, very late 90s (and yet still, I'd argue, salient). (This was originally published in Spanish in 2000 and translated into English last year.) There are a few different modes here, including a chapter of high theory working through Deleuze's claim to "molecular homosexuality," but my favorites were the Practices -- like CAConrad's Somatic Exercises, these are practices one can implement to adopt and honor "the logic of the dildo" and are accompanied by appealingly crude stick drawings.
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