Dysphoria mundi

Dysphoria mundi is a diary of planetary transition that takes the form of a mutating text, made up of essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction, which seeks to capture the upheavals of the end of patriarchal-colonial capitalism. Preciado describes in this work the modalities of a revolutionary present: not something that happened in a mythical past or that will happen in a messianic future, but something that is happening to us. We are facing one of the most ambitious books that have been written during the covid crisis; a book-world where the author gathers the changes that are taking place in all social, political, sexual spheres... The fascinating hypothesis that Preciado proposes here consists of generalizing the notion of dysphoria to understand it not as a mental illness, but as an epistemic and political abyss: the one that separates the old capitalist, patriarchal and colonial regime, which leads inexorably to extinction, from a new way of life that until now had been disqualified as unproductive and abnormal, and that has ended up revealing itself as the only possible way out. Exploiting all the disciplinary limits and their binaries, Preciado affirms himself here as one of the most important international philosophers of the moment, and manages to deliver, as Judith Butler has stated, a "monumental" work: an essential book to understand the present and even more to step into the future.