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The first monograph on the multimedia art of a daring trans pioneer, edited by Paul B. Preciado Lorenza Böttner was born Ernst Lorenz Böttner in Chile in 1959. At the age of eight, Böttner was electrocuted while climbing a pylon, following which both arms were amputated. After studying painting in Kassel, Böttner transitioned genders and learned to paint with her feet and mouth, also working in photography, drawing, dance, installation and performance. Böttner died of HIV-related complications in 1994. Although Chilean writers Roberto Bolaño and Pedro Lemebel wrote about Böttner in their respective 1996 novels Estrella Distante and Loco Afán, her work was long neglected until its debut at the 2017 Documenta, thanks to the efforts of acclaimed writer, philosopher and curator Paul B. Preciado. Assembled by Preciado, Requiem for the Norm is the first comprehensive publication on an artist whose work is a celebration of life and a defiance of the processes that seek to desubjectify, desexualize, lock up and "disappear" bodies that are transgender or function differently.

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference. Causing a veritable outcry among the assembly, Preciado called for a radical transformation of psychoanalytic discourse and practices, denouncing its complicity with the ideology of sexual difference.

In this bold and transgressive book, Preciado recounts his transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition.

Exploring the boundaries of gender and sexuality, Paul B. Preciado presents a radical vision for a countersexual revolution. He challenges traditional notions of identity and desire, proposing that genitalia be viewed as technological constructs rather than biological determinates. By critiquing established theorists and advocating for sexual emancipation through innovative practices, he emphasizes the importance of artifice over nature. His manifesto intertwines philosophy, theory, and cultural references, calling for a reimagined world of sexual fluidity and creativity.

Design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds as expressions of the relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality.

The most visionary book on gender and sexuality today.