essay text by PAUL B. PRECIADO. Paul B. Preciado is one of the foremost philosopher-writers on the topics of identity, gender, and sexuality. His books include Countersexual Manifesto and An Apartment on Uranus, and he recently published a major work called Dysphoria Mundi. This year, he also directed a film, Orlando, My Political Biography, about Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel and his own transition. In 1970, in a prophetic and unfortunately naive instruction manual for media sabotage called The Electronic Revolution, American writer William S. Burroughs urged citizens around the world, from New York to Mexico City to Paris, to switch the flow and use tape recorders and video cameras against state military and cultural powers. Although poet John Giorno portrays Burroughs as a psychedelic, secular saint, it’s difficult to choose as a critical companion a misogynistic, gun-loving, accidental-murderer homophobic queer. But despite these traits (misogyny, homophobia, the aestheticization of weapons,…