bio | Paul B. Preciado is a philosopher and queer activist. S/he is the director of the Independent Studies Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). A Fulbright Fellow, s/he earned a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University and an M.A. in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the New School for Social Research where s/he studied with Agnes Heller and Jacques Derrida. His/her first book, Contra-Sexual Manifesto (Balland, 2000), was acclaimed by French critics as “the red book of queer theory” and was translated into five languages. S/he teaches seminars on Gender Studies and Political History of the Body at Université Paris 8 – Saint Denis and l’École National de Beaux-Arts de Bourges.
Note: The biography describes the position of the narrator at the time of their participation in the Glossary of Common Knowledge. Given the long duration of the project, the narrator may have changed their respective position.
