Year: 2013
Type: paratext
Abstract: Deposition: drugs in theory Experimenting with drugs: or, how to take this book 1 Narcoanalysis, pharmacography and cultural studies 3 Narco-literary studies 8 Rethinking 'drugs': towards a post-anthropological perspective 10 The nature/culture dyad and drugs as 'cultural substances' 14 Drugs expertise and narco-power 17 The oblivion of drugs 19 Drugs and monstrosity 21 High modernity and high theory 23 Testing drugs in theory 25 2 Medusa's blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs The decision on drugs 29 In Plato's pharmacy 30 Addiction and the decision of existence 33 Intoxication and dosage: doing drugs well 38 Sacrifi ce and bad conscience 39 Applying drug(ged) theory to the everyday drug(ged) world 41 3 Deconstruction and drugs -all mixed up Culture and interdiction 47 Saying 'yes to drugs' and 'yes to deconstruction' 51 Rejecting transcendence 58 Taking drugs, for example… 61 Rewriting the drugs text and taking drugs otherwise 64 Living on the margins of the unforgettable 65
Author: Dave Boothroyd
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4253804892