Addiction, modernity, and the city a users' guide to urban space

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 t...

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Other Authors: Smith, Christopher B. R., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2015.
2016.
Edition:First edition
Series:Routledge advances in sociology ; 163.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866286506719
Table of Contents:
  • 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