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Choose Your Pill

Operations of Capital, Psychiatry, and the Construction of Gender

June 27, 2018 • by Franco Palazzi

I In his book Testo Junkie , Paul B. Preciado provides us with a provocative, original reading of contemporary capitalism, conceived as a pharmacopornographic regime. This term refers to “the processes of biomolecular (pharmaco) and semiotic-technical (pornographic) government of sexual subjectivity” that, although possibly rooted in the nineteenth century, became visible as a new ...

Race

There’s Blood on Your Binary

The social and corporeal costs of gender dualism

June 13, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“We are only ever better when we are many and varied.” Anna Julia Cooper A Voice from the South, 1898. More than a hundred years after they were written, Anna Julia Cooper’s words are both timeless and timely -- and yet the message has still not been received. Our world is one where we ...

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Bodies in Transition

Derailing gender in the liminal space of breast cancer treatment

May 24, 2018 • by Tara Mastrelli

According to political historian and gender theorist Paul Preciado, we are living in the pharmacapornagraphic era. In this era, claims his book Testo Junkie, gender is produced through the body’s constant interaction with images, imagery, and social norms that represent a naturalized sex ideal, and through technological and pharmeucuetical interventions. There is ...

Education

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

December 22, 2016 • by Charles Innis

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On December 4th a man walked into a warehouse-sized pizza and Ping-Pong establishment in Washington D.C. armed with a rifle and fired it once. Nobody was harmed, though pizza patrons fled the business and the neighborhood was put on lock-down ...

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

Education

Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

December 22, 2016 • by Miranda Young

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. In April of 2015, Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman on Diane Sawyer’s 20/20. Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn’s identity before her transition represented the paragon of what it meant to “be a man.” Caitlyn was ...

Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

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The Forces of Reproduction

Testo Junkie, by Paul Préciado

December 7, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

“Humanity does not exist under the sign of the divine… but of the monstrous.” -- Paul Préciado “Read, this!,” he said, thrusting a soiled photocopy of a typescript into my hands. “It will change your life!” Then he disappeared back into the public toilet he was cruising. This was my introduction to ...