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This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication.
Contents
Foreword: the Art of Hard Drugs; Andrew Hussey Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction; Eugene Brennan and Russell Williams PART I: CULTURAL HISTORIES OF INTOXICATION 1. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present; Russell Williams 2. The Green Jam of 'Doctor X'. Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins; Mike Jay PART II: POETIC INTOXICATIONS 3. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille; Eugene Brennan 4. 'Riding the Lines'. The Poetics of the 'Chevauchements' in Henri Michaux's Drug Experiments; Mathieu Perrot 5. Fabulous Operas, Rock'n'Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison; Alessandro Cabiati PART III: DIPSOMANIACAL NOVELISTS 6. Tipsiness and 'the Reigning Stupefaction' in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s; Joe Kennedy 7. 'Drink, She Said': Around the World of Durassian Alcohol; Anne-Lucille Gerardot PART IV: POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF INTOXICATION 8. Intoxication and Toxicity in a 'Pharmacopornographic Era': Beatriz Preciado's Testo Junkie; Joshua Rivas 9. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Derive; Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel 10. 'Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l'alcoolisme': A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International; Alastair Hemmens 11. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence; Benjamin Noys Selected bibliography Index
