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Drugs Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth

Author : Dennis Schep
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983915201
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Drugs Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth written by Dennis Schep and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drugs - Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth, Schep argues that the majority of writings about drugs fall into two categories: scientific work that establishes objective knowledge but neglects the experiential dimension, and texts that foreground the experiential aspects of drug intoxication at the expense of rigor. In this wide-ranging analysis of drug discourse and its conceptual foundations, the author claims that there are historical and metaphysical reasons for our apparent inability to address drugs directly. Drugs have become the locus of a number of political, juridical and philosophical debates, but most of these debates fail to address the tensions between drugs, language and truth that lie at the root of the cultural history of narcotics. According to the author, if we want to transcend the simple dichotomy between condemnation and propagation that has characterized our attitudes toward drugs in recent decades, we must first come to terms with these tensions. about the author: Dennis Schep (1985) holds an MA degree from the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee. He is currently living in Berlin, where he pursues his PhD research into autobiographical incursions in post-structuralist theory.

Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature

Author : William Simms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000435180
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature written by William Simms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Provides the first book-length psychoanalytic reading of landmark obscenity trails - An interdisciplinary study which will appeal to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, and law

The Autobiography Effect

Author : Dennis Schep
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000497321
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography Effect written by Dennis Schep and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of post-structuralism, various authors have problematized the modern conception of autobiography by questioning the status of authorship and interrogating the relation between language and reality. Yet even after making autobiography into a theoretical problem, many of these authors ended up writing about themselves. This paradox stands at the center of this wide-ranging study of the form and function of autobiography in the work of authors who have distanced themselves from its modern instantiation. Discussing Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and others, this book grapples with the question of what it means to write the self when the self is understood as an effect of writing. Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism.

Elsewhere in America

Author : David Trend
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317225422
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Elsewhere in America written by David Trend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet, in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with potential. In the face of America’s daunting challenges, can "elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose? Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).

Culture on drugs

Author : Dave Boothroyd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795277
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Culture on drugs written by Dave Boothroyd and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Drugs

Author : Nigel South
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952350
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Drugs written by Nigel South and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race' and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.

Empire of Conspiracy

Author : Timothy Melley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501713000
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Conspiracy written by Timothy Melley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"—an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear—including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory—Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory. Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.

High Culture

Author : Anna Alexander
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148758X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book High Culture written by Anna Alexander and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders," its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane? Taking a cultural studies approach to addiction, High Culture offers a readable and accessible collection of essays on these socially marginalized practices and discourses so central to modernity.

Drugs, Violence and Latin America

Author : Joseph Patteson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030689247
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Drugs, Violence and Latin America written by Joseph Patteson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence.

Ideology and Inscription

Author : Tom Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599672
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Inscription written by Tom Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of cultural studies that invokes Bakhtin, Benjamin, and de Man.

Differences

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Differences written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Author : Dr. Carl L. Hart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981660
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Drug Use for Grown-Ups written by Dr. Carl L. Hart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology. The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr. Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step.

Telling Signs of Addiction

Author : Lawrence Victor Driscoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Signs of Addiction written by Lawrence Victor Driscoll and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deconstructions

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317888
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructions written by Nicholas Royle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstructions: A User's Guide is a new and unusual kind of book. At once a reference work and a series of inventive essays opening up new directions for deconstruction, it is intended as an authoritative and indispensable guide. With a helpful introduction and specially commissioned essays by leading figures in the field, Deconstructions offers lucid and compelling accounts of deconstruction in relation to a wide range of topics and discourses. Subjects range from the obvious (feminism, technology, postcolonialism) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). Backed up by an unusually detailed index, this User's Guide demonstrates the innumerable and altering contexts in which deconstructive thinking and practice are at work, both within and beyond the academy, both within and beyond what is called 'the West'.

Reefer Madness

Author : Various
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1630087750
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Reefer Madness written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Degradation! Crime! Madness! Hysteria surrounded marijuana as a perceived gateway drug from the 1930's to the 1950's and beyond. Adventure Comics, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and works by Frank Frazetta, Jerry Robinson, Jack Kirby, and many more, reveal the social reaction to this era of "Reefer Madness". Like the anti-drug propaganda film, these stories range from comically misinformed to soberly concerned about the influence of Mary Jane on the youth of America. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Craig Yoe brings us his newest collection of wacky, wild, and culturally relevant comics. See how marijuana was perceived in the days of ignorance before it was legalized by the visionary people of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado! See marijuana demonized as a "Satan's cigarettes" in 1950's comics!

The Recovering

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316259624
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Recovering written by Leslie Jamison and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.

Pharmakon

Author : Michael A. Rinella
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461634016
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Pharmakon written by Michael A. Rinella and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500-336 BCE) and especially the dialogues of the Athenian philosopher Plato (427-347 BCE). Employing a diverse array of materials ranging from literature, philosophy, medicine, botany, pharmacology, religion, magic, and law, Pharmakon fundamentally reframes the conceptual context of how we read and interpret Plato's dialogues. Michael A. Rinella demonstrates how the power and truth claims of philosophy, repeatedly likened to a pharmakon, opposes itself to the cultural authority of a host of other occupations in ancient Greek society who derived their powers from, or likened their authority to, some pharmakon. These included Dionysian and Eleusinian religion, physicians and other healers, magicians and other magic workers, poets, sophists, rhetoricians, as well as others. Accessible to the general reader, yet challenging to the specialist, Pharmakon is a comprehensive examination of the place of drugs in ancient thought that will compel the reader to understand Plato in a new way.