—a pharmakon: part poison / part cure

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Pharmacia (Pharmakeia) is also a common noun signifying the administration of the pharmakon, the drug: the medicine and/or poison… socrates compares the written text Phaedrus has brought along to a drug (pharmakon).  The pharmakon, this “medicine”, this philtre, which acts as both remedy and poison, already introduces islets into the body of the discourse with all its ambivalences…that which resists any philosopheme, indefinitely exceeding its bounds as nonidentity, nonessence, nonsubstance; granting philosophy by that very fact the inexhaustible adversity of what funds it and the infinite absence of what founds it. 

(Preciado, Testo Junkie, 145)

 

An amulet holding within it the potential for infinite plasticity, as a molecular spaceship with the capacity to forge a future engineered differently to the past. 

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