
An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you.

I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. If you are author or own the copyright of this book, please report to us by using this DMCA report form. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed that they have the permission to share it.


Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.
