ABSTRACT
Walter Benjamin argues, a real “historical materialist” should be able to “dissociate himself as far as possible” from a vision of History condemning the Historian to compile the bloody documents that record the victors, but forget the losers. A materialism of the subalterns deals with a very strange matter: Not the bright matter of glorious and winning subjects, but a matter that was despised, denied, discarded, a matter that did not matter, a sort of negative matter – the negative matter of identities, genders, and sexualities. Paul B. Preciado's technology-oriented approach to genders, sexualities, and subjectivations, is not at all the same as Luce Irigaray's psychological-biological frame of thought, and it would be misleading to erase their obvious, strong difference. The feminist materialism of the text is necessary for any kind of attempt to change the cultural denial, or at least the cultural undervaluation, of the female position that still exists in society.
