Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space

ISBN-13: 9780367597665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Christopher B. R. Smith

Opis

This work explores the multiple intersections between addiction and each socio-spatial permutation of what Derrida called "narcotic modernity." It identifies connections between trends in urban planning over the course of the last century and the state of intoxication inherent to individuals’ experiential engagement with the capit

Spis treści

Part One: 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/or Illicit Substance  Part Two: 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 Societies  Part Three: 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 Four: 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 Space

O autorze

Christopher B.R. Smith is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research concerning substance use has been published in numerous international journals. He has worked in Toronto, Melbourne, Philadelphia, and St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he is a faculty member in Memorial University’s School of Social Work.