Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users Guide to Urban Space (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

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

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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. Artikel-Nr. 9780367597665

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