Culture on Drugs: Narco-Cultural Studies of High Modernity
Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Livro |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Publicado em: |
Manchester
Manchester University Press
2006
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| Em: | Ano: 2006 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Drugs ; Social aspects
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780719055980 |
| Resumo: | Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy. Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Addiction and the decision of existence -- Intoxication 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' -- The cocaine research -- Experiments 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 -- Baudelaire and the high flâneur. |
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| ISBN: | 1847791638 |