Almost imperceptible: a reading of the book sexual metaphysics. Cannibalism and devouring by Paul B. Preciado in Latin America

Authors

  • Mag De Santo Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Keywords:

Queer/cuir, Unintelligibility, Untranslatability, Transvestite Onto-epistemologies

Abstract

This review of the book Sexual Metaphysics. Cannibalism and devouring of Paul B. Preciado en América Latina (2021, Egales, 346 pages) approaches an interpretative reading within the framework of the discussions around the translatability and subversive power of queer in Latin America. In this genealogical inscription, I venture to propose the hypothesis according to which the book stands on a game of opacities, unintelligibility, inexistence and untranslatability situated as modalities of an onto-epistemic resistance.

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Author Biography

Mag De Santo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Research (CINIG). Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences; National University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata.

References

De Mauro Rucovsky, Martín y Axt, Bryan (comps.) (2020) Metafísicas sexuales. Canibalismo y Devoración de Paul B. Preciado en América Latina. EGALES.

Epps, Brad (2008). Retos, riesgos, pautas y promesas de la teoría queer. Revista Iberoamericana Vol. LXXIV, Núm. 225, pp. 899-920. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5216

Rivas, Felipe (2011). Diga queer con la lengua afuera. Sobre confusiones del debate latinoamericano. En Coordinadora Universitaria por la Disidencia Sexual (CUDS) (comp.), Por un feminismo sin mujeres (pp.59-75). Territorios sexuales-CUDS.

De Santo, Magdalena (2013). Los cuernos de un dilema o teoría queer. Acerca de la descontextualización infértil o la recontextualización local. [Ponencia] Actas del XVI Congreso Nacional de AFRA. https://www.bibliotecafragmentada.org/los-cuernos-de-un-dilema-o-teoria-queer/

Published

2022-11-25

How to Cite

De Santo, M. (2022). Almost imperceptible: a reading of the book sexual metaphysics. Cannibalism and devouring by Paul B. Preciado in Latin America. Polémicas Feministas, 6, 1–6. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/polemicasfeminista/article/view/39461