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Beatriz Preciado · 2013
A theoretical and autobiographical exploration of gender, testosterone, and sexuality that blends memoir, theory, and experimental narrative. Preciado documents physiological and political transformations induced by testosterone use while interrogating the intersection of pharmacology, pornography, and biopolitics in contemporary life.
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What this book knows
Testosterone, porn, and capital form a single regime that produces sexed subjects from the inside out.
erotic-as-power
Contemporary society is inhabited by toxic-pornographic subjectivities defined by the substance that supplies their metabolism and pharmacopornographic desires.
TJSD-RC-020What if desire, excitement, sexuality, and the pleasure of the multitude were all the mainsprings of the creation of value in the contemporary economy?
TJSD-RC-022The pharmacopornographic business is the invention of a subject and then its global reproduction — no object produced, only subjectivity.
TJSD-RC-021self-and-identity
I decide to keep my legal identity as a woman and take testosterone without subscribing to a sex change protocol — biting the dick that's raping you.
TJSD-RC-042embodiment
Semiotechnical codes of white heterosexual femininity: the Pill, bulimia, shame of deflowering, silence in the face of rape, saying no when you want to say yes.
TJSD-RC-088Medieval hallucinogenic salves absorbed topically resemble transgender people's use of testosterone in gel form today — a pharmacological continuum across centuries.
TJSD-RC-111Illuminates
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