The Fractionalized Phallus

Date
2025

[the boy] becomes subject to the domination of the castration
complex, the formation of which plays an important part in the
development of his character, […] [the girl] envies the boy his
possession, and primarily from this motive desires to be a man.
— “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”, Sigmund Freud, 1920.

It was a pompous structure, chipped out of granite dragged from god
knows where, it was twenty or thirty feet tall. … But the cock was
broken off clean in the middle; … The top half of the cock, ten feet
of it, lay in the sand at my feet but it did not look as if it had
fallen accidentally.
— “The Passion of New Eve”, Angela Carter, 1982.

The trans feminine body is a circuit. It is both testosterone
blockers and estrogen inputs, Acéphallus and Body without Sex Organs.
On the one hand a rejection of phallogocentricism, on the other hand
the affirmative desire of the body made virtual.
— “Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper”, n1x, 2018.

The epigraph to this paper offers one extreme, fantastical picture
of this bioegalitarianism taken to its logical terminus in a kind of
undifferentiated, protean biomass. In the words of the author, the
pseudonymous trans activist Nyx Land: “a return back to the ocean,
back to a sexless, genderless slime swarmachine.”
— “Imago DEI: Human Nature, Technology, and the Progress Dilemma”,
Heritage Foundation report by Mary Harrington, 2024.

It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male
and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in
fundamental and incontrovertible reality.
— “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING
BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT”, Executive Order by
Donald Trump, 2025.

Masculine energy is good, and obviously, society has plenty of that, but I think corporate culture was really trying to get away from it, I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.
— Mark Zuckerberg, 2025.

The Fractionalized Phallus (2025) consists of NFTs of fragmented
intimate 3D scans of the artist’s pre-gender-confirmation-surgery
body—a form that no longer exists and is therefore no longer her
property. This functions as an assertion of the materiality and
contingency of gender against violent fantasies of fixed binaries
imposed by state fiat. It does so by using the logics and systems of
that technokleptic state to reduce its master signifier to just
another commodity circulating within its markets. Thereby turning its
greatest fear and most policed desire into an answer to political
demands for increased masculinity in social and economic life.

One person’s body horror is another person’s gender euphoria. This
seems misallocated. NFTs make the unownable into alienable property,
allowing it to be reallocated and subject to price discovery.
Described in blockchain terms, sex is not soulbound – it is a matter
of stake. If you want more masculinity for yourself or your workplace,
simply buy some.

Through these strategies and resonances, The Fractionalized Phallus
builds on the irony of MYSOUL, the technofeminism of Titled
(Information as Property as Art)
, and the transfeminine critique of
The Ego, and It’s 0wned. It offers a powerful rejoinder to everyone
who wants the state out of their money and into everyone else’s pants.