Paul B. Preciado: An Apartment on Uranus Sophie Lewis the New York Film Critics

the New York Film Critics Circle

1000 Words

this book brings the reader fresh and surprising insights into the world of this much-loved artist

raised in chaos

and an image of a woman 'wearing' a chair (based on a Goya etching that satirises feminine display)

Paul B. Preciado: An Apartment on Uranus Sophie Lewis the New York Film CriticsFitzcarraldo Editions, 2020, softcover, 280 pages, 12. 5 x 19. 5 cm Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love differently'. Following in Ulrichs's footsteps, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he can live, free of the