LEADER 05750nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910791948303321 005 20230120053110.0 010 $a1-84779-527-7 010 $a1-78170-092-3 010 $a1-84779-163-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085767 035 $a(EBL)1069472 035 $a(OCoLC)818847137 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000747061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12292775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10705671 035 $a(PQKB)10631002 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085731 035 $a(OCoLC)930802052 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78000 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069472 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623270 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843630 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1934150 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1934150 035 $a(DE-B1597)658793 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791634 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085767 100 $a20121203d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture on drugs$b[electronic resource] $enarco-cultural studies of high modernity /$fDave Boothroyd 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-5599-7 311 $a0-7190-5598-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; 1 Deposition: drugs in theory; Experimenting with drugs: or, how to take this book; Narcoanalysis, pharmacography and cultural studies; Narco-literary studies; Rethinking 'drugs': towards a post-anthropological perspective; The nature/culture dyad and drugs as 'cultural substances'; Drugs expertise and narco-power; The oblivion of drugs; Drugs and monstrosity; High modernity and high theory; Testing drugs in theory; 2 Medusa's blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs; The decision on drugs; In Plato's pharmacy 327 $aAddiction and the decision of existenceIntoxication and dosage: doing drugs well; Sacrifice and bad conscience; Applying drug(ged) theory to the everyday drug(ged) world; 3 Deconstruction and drugs - all mixed up; Culture and interdiction; Saying 'yes to drugs' and 'yes to deconstruction'; Rejecting transcendence; Taking drugs, for example...; Rewriting the drugs text and taking drugs otherwise; Living on the margins of the unforgettable; 4 Freud's medicine: from the 'cocaine papers' to 'Irma's Injection'; Mixing psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology; Refiguring the 'cocaine episode' 327 $aThe cocaine researchExperiments with cocaine; From Fliess's nasal reflexology to the nose as the hinge; From Emma Eckstein's nose to 'Psychology for Neurologists'; Freud on the neurochemical/psychological divide; The interface between inside and outside - the neurochemical mechanism of the unconscious; Solutions and resolution: Freud's drug dream - 'Irma's Injection'; Derrida on 'Irma's Injection'; Freud's resistance to cocaine; 5 Benjamin's 'curious dialectics of intoxication'; A thinking which is eminently narcotic; Benjamin's narco-analysis of the culture of modernity 327 $aBaudelaire and the high fla?neurSurrealism: dreaming the revolution; Benjamin on hashish and the love of things; 6 Hallucinating Sartre; Philosophy and/or intoxication; The value of intoxication; The evidence of consciousness; Hallucination as a 'stumbling block' for the theory of consciousness; Sartre and Lewin; Sartre's mescaline trip; Merleau-Ponty: ambiguity and hallucination; Hallucination as a literary sort of high; 7 Foucault and Deleuze on acid; Drugs and the orbit of madness; LSD in the Theatrum Philosophicum: 'What will people think of us?'; Deleuze and Alice/D(odgson) 327 $aDeleuze's mathematisation of the series and the function 'LSD'Zabriske Point; From the self as a function of discourse to self-stylisation; Artaud and the artistry of depth; The LSD function and the surface-depth gradient; Deleuze, drugs and the 'folding of thought'; Deleuze and Guattari on the limits, uses and abuses of psychotropic drugs; Foucault, Deleuze and the power of drugs; 8 Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity; From the heroin scene to the heroin screen; Deleuze and the cinema of heroin; Heroinised bodies; The cinematic fix; Heroin's signature-autograph; Heroin close-up 327 $aHeroin as icon 330 $aNever has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of key figures such as Freud, Benjamin, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, arguing that the ideas and concepts by which modernity has attained its measure of self-understanding are themselves, in various ways, the products of encounters with drugs and the. 606 $aDrugs$xSocial aspects 610 $aalienation. 610 $aconsciousness. 610 $acultural crises. 610 $adrugs. 610 $ahigh theory. 610 $amodernity. 610 $anature/culture dyad. 610 $aself-understanding. 610 $aselfhood. 610 $avirtuality. 615 0$aDrugs$xSocial aspects. 676 $a362.29 700 $aBoothroyd$b Dave$01584358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791948303321 996 $aCulture on drugs$93868080 997 $aUNINA