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Autore: | Smith Christopher B. R. |
Titolo: | Addiction, modernity, and the city : a users' guide to urban space / / Christopher B. R. Smith |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2016 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 362.29 |
Soggetto topico: | Drug abuse - Social aspects |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Drug/culture : at home in the addicted city -- pt. 2. Dope/sick : bootstraps, brain diseases, and the depathologization of drug dependence -- pt. 3. Narco/state : excavating the socio-spatial permutations of narcotic modernity -- pt. 4. Brain/disease : the deafening internal dialogue of fractal interiorities. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section - Drug/Culture - demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section - Dope/Sick - conducts a critique of the prevailing pathology paradigm of addiction, proposing in its place a theoretical reconceptualization of drug dependence in the terms of "p/re/in-scription." Remapping the successive stages or phases of our narcotic modernity, the third section - Narco/State - delineates three primary eras of narcotic modernity, including the contemporary city of "safe"/"supervised" consumption. Employing an experimental, "intra-textual" format, the fourth section - Brain/Disease - mimics the sense, state or scape of intoxication accompanying each permutation of narcotic modernity in the interchangeable terms of drug, dream and/or disease. Tracing the parallel evolution of "addiction," the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book thus together constitute a users' guide to urban space. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Addiction, modernity, and the city |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910719759503321 |
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