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Beatriz Preciado in Seville

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Sevillian

The Andalucian International University and Centre of Art will carry out, between the 2nd and 4th of November, ´Cuerpo Común. Guía de Modelos Somatopolíticos´ (Common Body. Somatopolitical Model Guide and of their possible diverted uses ), a cycle of seminars and conferences on the compelx relation between the body, as a ´soma´ or live body, in which our society has fixated into a physical body handled and manipulated by a hegemonic power and bio-politics. The activities in workshops, seminars and conferences will take place in the Monastery of La Cartuja in Seville. In this interesting meeting of intellectuals, students and people interested on the subject of how current society regulates and modifies somatopolitics, we can get to know and influence our environment and ourselves, creating self-conscience from our existance and the sociopolitical relations which determine the place of the body in the public eye. At the seminar there´ll be the famous Spanish philosopher Beatriz Preciado. Born in Burgos in 1970, she´s revolutionized the world of discussion with her contributions on Queer theory, which refers to the sociopolitical construction of sexual identities generated from hegemony. Preciado is an architect, philosopher and got a doctorate from Princeton University, she has a masters in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory from the New School of Social Research in New York, and has been a disciple of Jacques Derrida and Agnes Heller. Her work is, today, one of the most outstanding in Queer Theory and she´s published a series of books which are a route of thought on the invention of the biological body as a political body. Her book ´Counter-sexual Manifest´ is a... read more