Addiction, modernity, and the city : a users' guide to urban space / / Christopher B.R. Smith

• Autore: Smith Christopher B. R.
• Pubblicazione: 2015; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29
• Soggetto topico: Drug abuse - Social aspects; Drug addicts; City planning; Neighborhood planning; Harm reduction
• Classificazione: POL002000SOC026000SOC026030
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Permissions Acknowledgments; Epigraphs; Part I Drug/Culture: At Home in the Addicted City; 1 Drug/Culture: Addiction, Modernity, and the City; 2 Bodies of Substance: The (Abject) Body of the Addict and the Social Body of the (Addicted) City; 3 Medi(t)ations on/of Controlled, Foreign, and Illicit Substance; Part II Dope/Sick: Bootstraps, Brain Diseases, and the Depathologization of Drug Dependence; 4 Pathology (out) of Place and the Disorder of Drugs ; 5 Depathologizing Drug Dependence: P/re/in-scription, Consumer Capitalism, and Control SocietiesPart III Narco/State: Excavating the Socio-Spatial Permutations of Narcotic Modernity; 6 Socio-Spatial Permutations of Narcotic Modernity: The Cities of Phantasmagoria and Shock, Spectacle and Alienation; 7 The Contemporary Cityscape as Site of Safe/Supervised Consumption; Part IV Brain/Disease: The Deafening Internal Dialogue of Fractal Interiorities; 8 The Intoxication of Narcotic Modernity: Cyborg Subjectivity, Urban Space, and the Media/Technology of Substance ; 9 Postscript to P/re/in-scription: A Users' Guide to Urban SpaceIndex
• 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
• ISBN: 1-317-63439-X; 1-315-75784-2; 1-317-63438-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831883403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 163.