Culture on drugs

Narco-cultural studies of high modernity

By: Dave Boothroyd

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Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of key figures such as Freud, Benjamin, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, arguing that the ideas and concepts by which modernity has attained its measure of self-understanding are themselves, in various ways, the products of encounters with drugs and their effects. In each case the reader is directed to the points at which drugs figure in the formulations of 'high theory', and it is revealed how such thinking is never itself a drug-free zone. Consequently, there is no ground on which to distinguish 'culture' from 'drug culture' in the first place.

Culture on drugs offers a novel approach and introduction to cultural theory for newcomers to the subject, simultaneously presenting an original thesis concerning the articulation of modern thought by drugs and drug culture. -- .

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Deposition: drugs in theory
Experimenting with drugs: or, how to take this book	p. 1
Narcoanalysis, pharmacography and cultural studies	p. 3
Narco-literary studies	p. 8
Rethinking 'drugs': towards a post-anthropological perspective	p. 10
The nature/culture dyad and drugs as 'cultural substances'	p. 14
Drugs expertise and narco-power	p. 17
The oblivion of drugs	p. 19
Drugs and monstrosity	p. 21
High modernity and high theory	p. 23
Testing drugs in theory	p. 25
Medusa's blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs
The decision on drugs	p. 29
In Plato's pharmacy	p. 30
Addiction and the decision of existence	p. 33
Intoxication and dosage: doing drugs well	p. 38
Sacrifice and bad conscience	p. 39
Applying drug(ged) theory to the everyday drug(ged) world	p. 41
Deconstruction and drugs - all mixed up
Culture and interdiction	p. 47
Saying 'yes to drugs' and 'yes to deconstruction'	p. 51
Rejecting transcendence	p. 58
Taking drugs, for example...	p. 61
Rewriting the drugs text and taking drugs otherwise	p. 64
Living on the margins of the unforgettable	p. 65
Freud's medicine: from the 'cocaine papers' to 'Irma's Injection'
Mixing psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology	p. 69
Refiguring the 'cocaine episode'	p. 72
The cocaine research	p. 75
Experiments with cocaine	p. 76
From Fliess's nasal reflexology to the nose as the hinge	p. 81
From Emma Eckstein's nose to 'Psychology for Neurologists'	p. 84
Freud on the neurochemical/psychological divide	p. 86
The interface between inside and outside - the neurochemical mechanism of the unconscious	p. 88
Solutions and resolution: Freud's drug dream - 'Irma's Injection'	p. 91
Derrida on 'Irma's Injection'	p. 94
Freud's resistance to cocaine	p. 96
Benjamin's 'curious dialectics of intoxication'
A thinking which is eminently narcotic	p. 100
Benjamin's narco-analysis of the culture of modernity	p. 101
Baudelaire and the high flaneur	p. 105
Surrealism: dreaming the revolution	p. 111
Benjamin on hashish and the love of things	p. 119
Hallucinating Sartre
Philosophy and/or intoxication	p. 127
The value of intoxication	p. 129
The evidence of consciousness	p. 132
Hallucination as a 'stumbling block' for the theory of consciousness	p. 136
Sartre and Lewin	p. 138
Sartre's mescaline trip	p. 142
Merleau-Ponty: ambiguity and hallucination	p. 148
Hallucination as a literary sort of high	p. 152
Foucault and Deleuze on acid
Drugs and the orbit of madness	p. 155
LSD in the Theatrum Philosophicum: 'What will people think of us?'	p. 158
Deleuze and Alice/D(odgson)	p. 163
Deleuze's mathematisation of the series and the function 'LSD'	p. 164
Zabriske Point	p. 166
From the self as a function of discourse to self-stylisation	p. 167
Artaud and the artistry of depth	p. 171
The LSD function and the surface-depth gradient	p. 174
Deleuze, drugs and the 'folding of thought'	p. 177
Deleuze and Guattari on the limits, uses and abuses of psychotropic drugs	p. 179
Foucault, Deleuze and the power of drugs	p. 183
Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity
From the heroin scene to the heroin screen	p. 186
Deleuze and the cinema of heroin	p. 192
Heroinised bodies	p. 196
The cinematic fix	p. 197
Heroin's signature-autograph	p. 198
Heroin close-up	p. 200
Heroin as icon	p. 202
Heroin's redeeming feature (film)	p. 203
References	p. 206
Index	p. 213
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