Preciado 39: "The real stake of capitalism today is the pharmacopornographic control of subjectivity, whose products are serotonin, techno-blood and blood products, testosterone, antacides, cortisone, techno-sperm, antibiotics, estradiol, techno-milk, alcohol and toabcco, morphine, insulin, cocaine, living human eggs, citrate of sildenafil (Viagra), and the entire material and virtual complex participating in the production of mental and psychosomatic states of excitation, relaxation, and discharge"
> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)
> tagged with #pleasure, #drugs, #body, #capitalism, #zeitgeist
> created February 26, 2024 at 8:36:01 PM
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