O farmacopoder

Abstract

My choice of aphorisms stemmed from my belated realization that ideas are provisional, unpredictable instruments. Equally belated was my understanding of what I have become: someone who constantly questions their own findings and certainties; in short, I realized that I am someone who questions. I am, therefore, a bearer of a deficit, which is the lack of knowledge. I am in need of knowledge. And since the answers I get from those who know are always provisional, I allow myself not to cling to any of them. In this sense, writing in aphorisms allows me to affirm the temporary nature of what I think, of what I am thinking. My expectation is that these, which I present here, will be, at least, a "tool." My purpose is not to offer another lens, although I hope that this collection will serve, at least, to make us think about the use of pharmacotherapies in the present time, but if it doesn't serve, then "let it be set aside." But as I was saying, my purpose (and here I confess) is to try to escape this form of power in which I have been inserted since my birth, and consciously, when I entered the Pharmacy degree program in 1989. This is, therefore, an attempt, perhaps futile, but certainly valid, to detoxify myself, rid myself of, or distance myself from this power. For hours I sought it, worshipped it, spoke of it, and used it, and still use it. But certainly, this movement would not have occurred without encounters with Jacques Derrida in his work: Plato's Pharmacy, and with Paul B. Preciado in his work: Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Age. It would not be an exaggeration to publicize that the pharmakon constituted me insofar as it brought me important questions, impelling me to write in an attempt (belief) to purge its residues, and consequently, its effects.