Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space

by Christopher Grant Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138796530
• ISBN13: 9781138796539
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"