05.06.2023 P. B. Preciado on Freedom

“Let me tell you, however, that in this apparent state of constraint I managed to fabricate greater freedom than I had had as a supposedly free woman in the technopatriarchal society of the early twenty-first century, if by freedom we mean the ability to go out, to perceive a horizon, to build a project, to experience if only for a fleeting instant the radical community of all life, all energy, all matter beyond the taxonomic hierarchies invented by human history. If the regime of sexual difference can be conceived as a semio-technical and cognitive framework that limits our perception, or ways of feeling and loving, the journey of gender transitioning, however tortuous and erratic it may appear, made it possible for me to experience life beyond these limits.”

-Can the monster speak? pg. 27