Paul B. Preciado is a philosopher, art curator and writer. He is internationally known for his work on body, gender and sexuality politics. A former Fulbright scholar, he first studied philosophy and gender theory at The New School for Social Research in New York, where he studied with Jacques Derrida and Agnes Heller.
He has been Director of Public Programmes and the Independent Studies Programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Curator of Public Programmes at documenta 14, Kassel and Athens; and curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice with the artist Shu Lea Cheang, among other institutional tasks. He teaches Philosophy of the Body at New York University, as well as other European universities. He is the author of "Countersexual Manifesto"; "Testo Junkie, Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics"; "Pornotopia"; "An Apartment on Uranus"; and "Can the Monster Speak?", all published by Anagrama.
