Tournament: Yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: American Heritage Broward SS | Judge: Eric Tang, Calvin Tyler, Mariana Colicchio
We have entered a post-Fordist state of technocapitalism in which gender, sex, and sexuality are objects of biochemical political management where the pharmaceutical and pornographic industries invent our subjectivities. The inherent connection between the sex and drug industries, and drug and war industries, underwrite all capital relations. This molecular and sexual manipulative government is the pharmacopornographic regime.
Precadio 1 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
How did sex and sexuality become the main objects of political and economic activity?
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resisting, of consuming and destroying, of evolution and self-destruction.
Technocapitalism profits off the control and manipulation of potentia gaudendia, or orgasmic power
Precadio 2 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
To understand how and why sexuality and the body, the excitable body, at
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that is the effect of a widespread cultural mechanism of representation and production.
The idea of "intellectual property" and patentability are constructs of warmaking – they only serve to help pharmacopornographic monopolies exploit and profit off the vulnerable subject's potentia gaundendi
Fragnito 1 ~Fragnito, Maddalena (2020). Commoning Molecules: Decolonising Biological Patents by Gender Hacking Protocols. Journal of International Women's Studies, 21(7), 153-169. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/12 MSJ SB~
Acting within the areas that have not yet been fully regulated allows the molecular invasion
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not protect transgender people from the consequences that discontinuous hormone intake can generate.
The creation of the contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico signified the mass infiltration of a government of biochemical, semiotic, and economic manipulation
Precadio 3 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
During the period when the notion of gender, the H-bomb, silicone
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, the separation of the sexes, and the control of gender.78
Systems of power manipulate copyright to best exploit the vulnerable body – they determine which drugs are "acceptable" for public use
Preciado 4 |Paul B. Preciado is a professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Université Paris VIII and director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, 2013, Page 389-393|KZaidi
In fact, the pharmacopornographic industries are already in competition with the domestic affairs of
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espouse administrative criteria and channels of distribution comparable to those of narcotic substances.
Living in the pharmacopornographic era necessitates a bare technolife, or a life absent of all defining identical features. The control of our minds, bodies, sex, and sexualities mean no part of our identity is our own – we're just ideas
Precadio 5 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
The goal of contemporary critical theory would be to unravel our condition as pharmacopornographic workers
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a matter of inventing a subject and producing it on a global scale.
Gender hackers and activists must force the state to common medicines without restrictions. This is not engaging the state – it's making them do what we want.
Preciado 6 |Paul B. Preciado is a professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Université Paris VIII and director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, 2013, Page 393-394|KZaidi
How to react in the face of states' resistance to legal- izing the sale
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junkie experts, a monster-multitude-in-the-making.
The alternative is commoning hormones through copyleft biohacking – participatory workshops like Open Source Estrogen and Power Makes Us Sick are material examples of how we can vacate the pharmacopornographic space and take care of each other without it.
Fragnito 2 ~Fragnito, Maddalena (2020). Commoning Molecules: Decolonising Biological Patents by Gender Hacking Protocols. Journal of International Women's Studies, 21(7), 153-169. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/12 MSJ SB~
Sexual life, as we know it, is changing through the transformation of toxicity
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and are giving back centrality to collective practices of healthcare self-education.