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

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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Drug/culture : at home in the addicted city -- Drug/culture : addiction, modernity, and the city -- Bodies of substance : the (abject) body of the addict and the social body of the (addicted) city -- Medi(t)ations on/of controlled, foreign and/or illicit substance -- Dope/sick : bootstraps, brain diseases and the depathologization of drug -- Dependence -- Pathology (out) of place and the disorder of drugs -- Depathologizing drug dependence : p/re/in-scription, consumer capitalism and control societies -- Narco/state : excavating the socio-spatial permutations of narcotic -- Modernity -- Socio-spatial permutations of narcotic modernity : the cities of phantasmagoria and shock, spectacle and alienation -- The contemporary cityscape as site of safe/supervised consumption -- Brain/disease : the deafening internal dialogue of fractal interiorities -- The intoxication of narcotic modernity : cyborg subjectivity, urban space, and the media/technology of substance -- Postscript to p/re/in-scription : a users' guide to urban space -- Index