Preciado, Beatriz

Autor: Preciado, Beatriz
Rok: 1970-
Oblast působnosti: spisovatelé, filozofové, vysokoškolští učitelé

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Španělský spisovatel, filozof, kurátor, vysokoškolský pedagog, věnuje se problematice gender, identity, pornografie a sexuality.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Paul B. Preciado, (born Beatriz Preciado in 1970 in Burgos, Spain) is a contemporary writer, philosopher and curator whose work focuses on applied and theoretical topics relating to identity, gender, pornography, architecture and sexuality. Known originally as a female writer and identified as a lesbian, Preciado announced in 2014 that he was transitioning and, in January 2015, changed his first name from Beatriz to Paul.Preciado came to the The New School in New York from Spain on a Fulbright scholarship to get an MA in Philosophy. Jacques Derrida and Agnes Heller became mentors to Preciado. In 1999, Derrida invited Preciado to teach a seminar in Paris on forgiveness and the gift during transformation. Later, he came back to the United States to complete his Ph.D in Philosophy and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, writing a disseration called, Pornotopía: Architecture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War in 2010.Preciado is currently professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Université Paris VIII and is the director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA).Since January 2013, Preciado regularly contributes to French newspaper Libération's website Liberation.fr, in a column having gender, sexuality, love and biopower as recurrent themes.Preciado dated French writer-director Virginie Despentes from 2005 to 2014.