»Über-coca«, »Über-sex«, »Über-ništavilo«
“Über-Coca”, “Über-Sex”, “Über-Nothingness”

Summary/Abstract: “Über-Coca”, “Über-Sex” and “Über-Nothingness” are metaphors of certain aggregate states: “Über-Coca” refers to Freud's experiments with cocaine, an open possibility of pharmatizing the conception as well as the entirety of psychoanalysis; “Über-Sex” is a constant need of not only controlling, and regulating sexuality, but of using it in production itself, as a particular sort of engine of productive forces; »Über-Nothingness” refers to borderline situations produced in such a control, ontological uncertainties only vaguely discernible from today’s vantage point. This essay tries to answer the question of how these “übers” permeate each other in creation of new sexual identities in the twenty-first century. First part of the essay deals with genesis of biopower which was mapped by Paul Beatriz Preciado in his work Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. After a brief overview of this type of biopower and capitalism, we are led to the ontological concept on which Preciado concieves his argument regarding pharmaceutical-pornographic capitalism. The issue discussed here is a concept referred to as potentia gaudendi, an orgasmic force which cannot be channeled, which is neither male nor female, a neuter, which permeates the animal realm, too, even the inorganic, therefore, it can almost be understood as a cosmic orgasmic force. Second part of the essay asks the question regarding the ontological merit of potentia gaudendi comparing it to another phantasm of the workings of financial capitalism as portrayed by Martin Scorsese's movie The Wolf of Wall Street, with a focus on analysis of the very performativity of ontological uncertainty which constantly returns. By criticizing Preciado and his/her reading of Lacan, the essay deals with “Über-Nothingness«, which seems to appear only at the end of the linear progressive sequence of »Über-Coca”, “Über-Sex”, “Über-Nothingness”, but is actually there from the very start.

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