Technological contamination pervades daily life. Some have ethical issues with gene editing and implants, however, we already augment our bodies with technology. Glasses, phones, cars- these objects become transhuman extensions of ourselves. Transhumanism involves the technological augmentation and improvement of the human body and cognition.  It takes effort not to interface with technology.

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In Testo Junkie, Preciado focuses on analyzing the “pharmacopornographic” body under capitalistic biopower. He describes illicitly microdosing on sex hormones not to transition gender, but to hack his body. ”The pharmacopornographic body is not passive living matter, but a techno-organic interface, a techno living system segmented and territorialized by different  (textual, data-processing, biochemical) political technologies.” 1 The body within capitalism is categorized and monitored. Hormonally augmenting one’s body to reject universalized standards of how a body should function, appear, and feel rejects the pressures of capitalistic surveillance. He uses biohacking to blur boundaries instead of making them hyperspecific. Through hormones, gender becomes a technology.