An introduction to the queer theory of Paul B. Preciado

Abstract

The present work aims to serve as an introduction to the theoretical production of the philosopher Paul B. Preciado, in the framework of queer theory and current feminisms. Over the following sections we will articulate the intertextual dialogue between Preciado's production and the rhetoric and practices mentioned, which, in a dispersed way, would have been generated throughout the author's different works.We propose to show how his main theses emerge from the experience of trafficking and reformulation of a series of analytical tools extracted from the context of postfeminist, poststructuralist, and queer studies, such as the Foucauldian genealogy, the Wittignian notion of heterosexuality as a political regime, the Butlerian analysis of performative identity, the conception of gender as technology devised by de Lauretis, or the politics of cyborg designed by Haraway.  At the same time, we will expose what are the fundamental contributions of the author as a queer and feminist theorist, highlighting his conception of gender and sex as somato-political technologies; and the analyses of the ways in which current capitalism develops to "produce" contemporary subjectivity and perpetuate a patriarchal-colonial epistemological, political and ecological system.