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Love is always a cybernetics of addiction. Ending up with…

“Love is always a cybernetics of addiction. Ending up with an addiction to someone, for someone, making someone the object of the addiction, or becoming addicted to a third substance for someone. To her, to me, to testosterone. Testosterone and I. She and I. She or the testosterone. She = the…” quote by Paul B. Preciado
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““Love is always a cybernetics of addiction. Ending up with an addiction to someone, for someone, making someone the object of the addiction, or becoming addicted to a third substance for someone. To her, to me, to testosterone. Testosterone and I. She and I. She or the testosterone. She = the testosterone. Producing or consuming testosterone. Stopping testosterone for her. Absorbing her testosterone.””

Paul B. Preciado

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This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Love is framed as an addictive, cybernetic system intertwining biology and desire, emphasizing complex interdependencies.

In simple terms: Love functions like a biological feedback loop.

Key Takeaway

Recognize love's entwined nature.

Themes

Love Addiction Biology

Mood

philosophical psychological

Type

Addiction:1 Cybernetics:1 Love:1 Pharmacopornographic:0 Queer:0 Testosterone:0 Trans:0 Addicted Substance:0 Cybernetics Addiction:0 Consuming Testosterone:0 Substance Testosterone:0 Absorbing Testosterone:0

When to use this quote

  • Viewing love purely as addiction may oversimplify.

Key Concepts

Cybernetics Queer theory Pharmacology

Questions to Reflect On

  • intense
  • reflective
A Different Perspective

How do biology and desire intersect in love?;Can love be both empowering and addictive?

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