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<italic>Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era</italic> by Paul B. Preciado (review)

Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era by... Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era New York: The Feminist Press, 2013, 432 pp. ISBN 9781558618374 Sarah K. Hansen T EST O JUNK IE: SEX, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era is a testosterone fueled “body essay,” a work of “auto-theory” that upends contemporary understandings of biopolitics and revels in the gender-fucking experimentation of its author, Paul B. Preciado. In the text, Preciado is the first-person narrator BP, a Paris-based philosopher who takes black-market testosterone to “foil society” and to avenge the death of a friend, Guillaume Dustan or GD. BP’s experiment may be the only way to mourn or “avenge” someone like Dustan, a filmmaker and notorious sexual provocateur. It is also an extraordinary and exhilarating way to do philosophy. Instead of providing “thinking head” commentaries on Hegel or Butler, BP practices a method of “auto-decapitation”: “I wanted to cut off my head that had been molded by a program of gender, dissect part of the molecular model that resides in me. This book is the trace left by that cut” (424). It is quite a trace. Testo Junkie is shot through with sexual energy and conceptual innovations, alternating between http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

<italic>Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era</italic> by Paul B. Preciado (review)

philoSOPHIA , Volume 6 (1) – Aug 6, 2016

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Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era New York: The Feminist Press, 2013, 432 pp. ISBN 9781558618374 Sarah K. Hansen T EST O JUNK IE: SEX, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era is a testosterone fueled “body essay,” a work of “auto-theory” that upends contemporary understandings of biopolitics and revels in the gender-fucking experimentation of its author, Paul B. Preciado. In the text, Preciado is the first-person narrator BP, a Paris-based philosopher who takes black-market testosterone to “foil society” and to avenge the death of a friend, Guillaume Dustan or GD. BP’s experiment may be the only way to mourn or “avenge” someone like Dustan, a filmmaker and notorious sexual provocateur. It is also an extraordinary and exhilarating way to do philosophy. Instead of providing “thinking head” commentaries on Hegel or Butler, BP practices a method of “auto-decapitation”: “I wanted to cut off my head that had been molded by a program of gender, dissect part of the molecular model that resides in me. This book is the trace left by that cut” (424). It is quite a trace. Testo Junkie is shot through with sexual energy and conceptual innovations, alternating between

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Published: Aug 6, 2016

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