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Pharmaco‐pornographic Politics: Towards a New Gender Ecology

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13534640701782139

1460-700X

Beatriz Preciado,

Political Economy and Marxism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Thank you to Yvette Vinke for her quick translation and to Eliza Steinbock for taking care of the editing process and endless email exchange. Beatriz Preciado. 1. Some of the most influential analyses of the current transformations of industrial society and capitalism revelant to my own work are: Mauricio Lazzarato, ‘Le concept de travail immaterial: la grande enterprise’, in Futur Antérieur, n.10 (1992); Antonella Corsani, ‘Vers un renouvau de l'économie politique, anciens concepts et innovation théorique’, in Multitudes, n.2 (2000); Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Multitudes (Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 2004); Yann Moulier Boutang, Le capitalismo cognitif. La grande transformation (Paris: Ámsterdam, 2007). 2. I refer here to Foucault's notion ‘somato‐pouvoir’ and ‘technologie politique du corps’. See Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), pp.33–36, and Michel Foucault, ‘Les rapports de pouvoir passent à l'interieur du corps’, La Quinzaine Littéraire, 247 (January 1977), pp.4–6. Also, here I draw on the well‐known expression used by Immanuel Wallerstein in World‐Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004). 3. Michel Foucault, Du gouvernement des vivants (Collège de France, 1980) (unpublished). 4. Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: The Free Press, 1990). 5. John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1983). 6. See Beatriz Colomina, Domesticity at War (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). 7. Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp.178–218. 8. Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires. A History of Contraceptives in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), pp.203–231. 9. Tom Carnwath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp.40–2. 10. M. E. Clynes and N.S. Kline, ‘Cyborgs and Space’, in Astronautics (September, 1960). 11. See Mike Davis, ‘Planet of Slums’, New Left Review 26 (April–March 2004). 12. Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening. Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), and Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, La vie de laboratoire. La construction des faits scientifiques (Paris: La Découverte, 1979). 13. See Donna Haraway, ‘When Man™ is on the Menu’, Incorporations, ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford K Winter (New York: Zone Books, 1992). 14. See Rem Koolhaas's notion of ‘junkspace’ in ‘Junkspace’, October, 100, Obsolescence. A special issue (June 2002), pp.175–190. 15. Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité (Paris: Gallimard, 1976), pp.136–39. 16. For a visual history of hysteria see Georges Didi‐Huberman, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004) 17. Gilles Deleuze, ‘Post‐scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’, Pourparlers (Paris: Minuit, 1990), p.241. 18. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000). 19. Donna Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse (New York and London: Routledge, 1997). 20. John Money, Joan Hampson and John Hampson, ‘Imprinting and the Establishment of the Gender Role’, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry (1957). 21. See Marcel Mauss, ‘Techniques du corps’ [1934], Sociologie et anthropologie (Paris: PUF, 2001). 22. About this relationship between power, failure and resistance see: Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp.15–16. 23. I am referring her to Michel Foucault's notion of ‘corps docile’: Surveiller et punir, first chapter of the third part. 24. For the elaboration of this Spinozian concept of ‘puissance’ see Maurizio Lazaratto, Puissance de l'invention (Paris: Les empecheurs de penser en rond, 2002). 25. Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 2000), p.162. 26. Dean Spader, ‘Mutilating Gender’, The Transgender Studies Reader, ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whitle (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp.315–32. 27. I am using here the notion of ‘becoming‐common’, ‘devenir‐commun’ invoked by Michael Hardt and Toni Negri to explain the new common condition of biopolitical work. See: Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Multitudes, p.142. 28. See Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Multitude: War and democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2005). 29. Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004).