Do ciborgue à farmacopornografia: a materialização técnica dos corpos sexuais em Donna Haraway e Paul B. Preciado

Abstract

This study proposes a philosophical analysis of contemporary technologies for the production of sexual bodies through the interweaving of the thoughts of Donna Haraway and Paul B. Preciado. The research departs from the realization that the violence against trans people – physical, symbolic, and institutional – situates an ongoing ontological dispute: the attempt to reimpose a notion of nature that precedes technique, desire, and politics. Against this naturalizing operation, it is affirmed here that all bodies are trans – that is, bodies in process, traversed by technical practices, normative inscriptions, scientific fictions, and sexual performances that continuously constitute them. Through the concept of the cyborg, Haraway questions the founding dualisms of Western modernity – nature/culture, body/mind, male/female –, proposing a relational ontology in which the body is a material-semiotic artifact. Preciado, in turn, describes the emergence of the pharmacopornographic regime as a new form of governance over bodies and pleasure, in which gender ceases to be a mere identity to become a technopolitical interface. The analysis also articulates the concepts of material performativity and plasticity to think of matter as a field of dispute and of the body as a potentiality for rewriting. Finally, it proposes the concept of the contrasexual becoming of nature as a figure of resistance in which the body not only resists but also creates new forms of life, desire, and existence. The study concludes that Haraway and Preciado share a common horizon: both understand technoscience not as the enemy of politics, but as its medium of insurgency; both displace the notion of the body from passivity to agency and from fixity to plasticity; and both, through distinct paths, affirm the need to denaturalize flesh in order to reinvent the possible. In this work, the body is neither essence nor substance, but a political assemblage: every body is cyborg, every body is trans.