anabessacarvalho's review against another edition
http://www.intro.pt/manifesto-contra-sexual-paul-b-preciado-orfeu-negro-2019
wetsokcs's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
really great book, the last chapter lost me, but overall great!!!!
2constellations's review against another edition
I will finish this book another time.
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.