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"Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." Tracing and tracking the zones of modern dependencies, she deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictive mappings that are culturally accepted - an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself as well as the satellite technologies of our everyday existence." "It is a commonplace of modern culture to presume that there is a subculture or counterculture deeply saturated with drugs,…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2004University of Illinois Press · 174 pages · 9780252071904
- Other · English · 1992University of Nebraska Press · 174 pages · 9780803239036
- Other · English · 1992University of Nebraska Press · 9780803289444
Alcoholism in literatureCocaine abuse in literatureDrug abuse in literatureHistory and criticismModern LiteratureLiterature and narcoticsNarcotics in literatureCrack (drug)