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Writing On Drugs

By Sadie Plant

Book information

Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Year
2000
ISBN
0374293341, 9780374293345
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9217263 bytes)
Pages
294\298
Time added
2021-11-02 01:52:08

Description

Sadie Plant Traces the History of Drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use as an avenue to spiritual transcendence, Plant focuses on the way that drugs themselves make precise, recognizable interventions in consciousness, in cultural life, in politics. She argues that the use, production, and trafficking of drugs -- narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens -- have shaped some of the era's most fundamental philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth.

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