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Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users’ Guide to Urban Space book cover

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

By Christopher B.R. Smith Copyright 2016
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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