Framing Drug Use

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.

Auteur

John L. Fitzgerald

Contenu

1. Introduction: Who is Responsible? 2. Navigating a Pharmacoanalysis 3. The Image of Drug Desire 4. Syringes, Metonymy, Global Fear and News 5. The Rave Assemblage 6. Faciality and Drug Photography 7. The Spatial Economies of Drug Dealing 8. Drinking as a Global 'Mo'-vement Assemblage 9. Drugs and the Abject 10. Drugs and Transitional Economies 11. Neuroenablement and Hope 12. Pharmacological Omnipotence and Sexual Violence 13. Drug Epistemologies