Testo Junkie Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era [Paperback]

What constitutes a real man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.

In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault'sThe History of Sexualityalso includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.

Unorthodox combination of confessional autobiography with theoretical philosophy by a charismatic author.

First book by this international public intellectual to be translated into the English language.

Eager audience anticipating and requesting this book: students, scholars, feminists, queers, and social historians.

High profile endorsements from Judith Jack Halberstam, Judith Butler, Virginie Despentes, Lydia Lunch, and Annie Sprinkle.

Introduction
1. Your Death
2. THE PHARMACOPORNOGRAPHIC ERA
3. TESTOGEL
4. HISTORY OF TECHNOSEXUALITY
5. IN WHICH THE BODY OF VD BECOMES AN ELEMENT IN AN EXPERIMENTAL CONTEXT
6. TECHNOGENDER
7. BECOMING T
8. PHARMACOPOWER
9. TESTO-MANIA
10. PORNPOWER
11. JIMI AND ME
12. THE MICROPOLITICS OF GENDER IN THE PHARMACOPORNOGRAPHIC ERA:EXPERIMENTATION, VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION, MUTATION
13. ETERNAL LIFE

“Testo Junkieis a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. The results are spectacular . . . The gendered body will never be tl³?