Culture on drugs : narco-cultural studies of high modernity /: narco-cultural studies of high modernity. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dave Boothroyd.
• Authors: Boothroyd, Dave
• 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 existenceIntoxication 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 researchExperiments 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 flâneurSurrealism: dreaming the revolution; Benjamin on hashish and the love of things; 6 Hallucinating Sartre; Philosophy and/or intoxication; The value of intoxication; The evidence of consciousness; Hallucination as a 'stumbling block' for the theory of consciousness; Sartre and Lewin; Sartre's mescaline trip; Merleau-Ponty: ambiguity and hallucination; Hallucination as a literary sort of high; 7 Foucault and Deleuze on acid; Drugs and the orbit of madness; LSD in the Theatrum Philosophicum: 'What will people think of us?'; Deleuze and Alice/D(odgson). Deleuze's mathematisation of the series and the function 'LSD'Zabriske Point; From the self as a function of discourse to self-stylisation; Artaud and the artistry of depth; The LSD function and the surface-depth gradient; Deleuze, drugs and the 'folding of thought'; Deleuze and Guattari on the limits, uses and abuses of psychotropic drugs; Foucault, Deleuze and the power of drugs; 8 Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity; From the heroin scene to the heroin screen; Deleuze and the cinema of heroin; Heroinised bodies; The cinematic fix; Heroin's signature-autograph; Heroin close-up.
• Publisher Details: Manchester, UK New York : Manchester University Press Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
• Subjects: 394.14; Drugs of abuse -- Social aspects; Narcotics -- Social aspects; Drug abuse -- Psychological aspects; Intellectual life; Social evolution; PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction; SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781781700921; 1781700923; 9781847791634; 1847791638
• Related ISBNs: 0719055989; 9780719055980; 0719055997; 9780719055997
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.