Addiction, modernity, and the city : : a users' guide to urban space / / Christopher B. R. Smith.

• Superior document: Routledge advances in sociology ; 163
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Christopher B. R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge advances in sociology ; 163.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Drug/culture : at home in the addicted city -- pt. 2. Dope/sick : bootstraps, brain diseases, and the depathologization of drug dependence -- pt. 3. Narco/state : excavating the socio-spatial permutations of narcotic modernity -- pt. 4. Brain/disease : the deafening internal dialogue of fractal interiorities.