Pleasure and value

 
Preciado 26: "What if [...] the insatiable bodies of the multitude--their cocks, clitorises, anuses, hormones, and neurosexual synapses--what if desire, excitement, sexuality, seduction, and the pleasure of the multitude were all the mainsprings of the creation of value added to the contemporary economy?"
 
Preciado 39: "[T]he raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure, and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction."

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #economics, #capitalism, #desire, #pleasure

> created February 26, 2024 at 8:27:27 PM


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