Christopher B R Smith

Addiction, Modernity, and the City

A Users' Guide to Urban Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the multiple intersections between addiction and each socio-spatial permutation of what Derrida called "narcotic modernity."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138796539
• ISBN-10: 1138796530
• Artikelnr.: 42791351

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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