The philosopher and curator made his first foray into film with his experimental production Orlando, My Political Biography (2023), which gained wider theatrical releases throughout 2024. ‘A political work that wears its seriousness very lightly,’ wrote Sight and Sound, ‘and its lightness very seriously indeed.’ Preciado’s book Dysphoria Mundi, published in Spanish in 2023, will come out in an English translation in early 2025 (the hybrid essayistic outing was written during the COVID-19 lockdown and considers dysphoria as a defining aspect of current life). But Preciado remains, as ever, the intellectual face for the instabilities of gender and biopolitics, and a world that’s in transition. Often cited by artists, Preciado’s work made its way into the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, where Sandra Gamarra took a sentence from a lecture by the thinker to accompany a work she had made: ‘trans body is to normative heterosexuality what Palestine is to the West: a colony whose extension and form is perpetuated only through violence’.