What am I doing here? I have come to terrorize you! I am a monster, you say? No! I am the people! I am an exception? No! I am the rule; you are the exception! You are the chimera; I am the reality!
Victor Hugo, The Man who Laughs (1869), quoted by artist Lorenza Böttner in her thesis âHandicapped?â (1982) and epigraph of Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak?












