La emergencia de las drogas sintéticas como acontecimiento farmacopolítico: aguante y plasticidad

Abstract

This article aims to develop a reflection on the changes in the understanding and significance of the uses of synthetic drugs in modern pharmacotopia. From a genealogical perspective, the text develops a diagnosis of the present, which is empirically based on two ethnographic investigations carried out in Santiago de Chile between 2004 and 2018. The central argument of the article is to affirm that the emergence of synthetic drugs constitutes a pharmacopolitical event, whose effects reconfigure the field of knowledge, government practices, and the politics of experience. In this framework, it problematizes the drug / drug separation, warning of a shift in the regimes of truth with respect to drugs. The analysis of endurance and plasticity is used as fictions that are situated on the horizon of human empowerment. Both figures position us in a fiction of a habitable body in its plasticity, as a symbolic and material expression of a pharmacopolitical turn. The pharmacopolitical fiction is configured around the idea of ​​a human empowerment that operates through somatotechnological experimentation practices and processes of subjectivation.