Culture on drugs : narco-cultural studies of high modernity

Content: Acknowledgements
 1 Deposition: drugs in theory
 Experimenting with drugs: or, how to take this book
 Narcoanalysis, pharmacography and cultural studies
 Narco-literary studies
 Rethinking 'drugs': towards a post-anthropological perspective
 The nature/culture dyad and drugs as 'cultural substances'
 Drugs expertise and narco-power
 The oblivion of drugs
 Drugs and monstrosity
 High modernity and high theory
 Testing drugs in theory
 2 Medusa's blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs
 The decision on drugs
 In Plato's pharmacy. Addiction and the decision of existenceIntoxication and dosage: doing drugs well
 Sacrifice and bad conscience
 Applying drug(ged) theory to the everyday drug(ged) world
 3 Deconstruction and drugs --
all mixed up
 Culture and interdiction
 Saying 'yes to drugs' and 'yes to deconstruction'
 Rejecting transcendence
 Taking drugs, for example ... 
 Rewriting the drugs text and taking drugs otherwise
 Living on the margins of the unforgettable
 4 Freud's medicine: from the 'cocaine papers' to 'Irma's Injection'
 Mixing psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology
 Refiguring the 'cocaine episode' The cocaine researchExperiments with cocaine
 From Fliess's nasal reflexology to the nose as the hinge
 From Emma Eckstein's nose to 'Psychology for Neurologists'
 Freud on the neurochemical/psychological divide
 The interface between inside and outside --
the neurochemical mechanism of the unconscious
 Solutions and resolution: Freud's drug dream --
'Irma's Injection'
 Derrida on 'Irma's Injection'
 Freud's resistance to cocaine
 5 Benjamin's 'curious dialectics of intoxication'
 A thinking which is eminently narcotic
 Benjamin's narco-analysis of the culture of modernity. Baudelaire and the high flâneurSurrealism: dreaming the revolution
 Benjamin on hashish and the love of things
 6 Hallucinating Sartre
 Philosophy and/or intoxication
 The value of intoxication
 The evidence of consciousness
 Hallucination as a 'stumbling block' for the theory of consciousness
 Sartre and Lewin
 Sartre's mescaline trip
 Merleau-Ponty: ambiguity and hallucination
 Hallucination as a literary sort of high
 7 Foucault and Deleuze on acid
 Drugs and the orbit of madness
 LSD in the Theatrum Philosophicum: 'What will people think of us?'
 Deleuze and Alice/D(odgson). Deleuze's mathematisation of the series and the function 'LSD'Zabriske Point
 From the self as a function of discourse to self-stylisation
 Artaud and the artistry of depth
 The LSD function and the surface-depth gradient
 Deleuze, drugs and the 'folding of thought'
 Deleuze and Guattari on the limits, uses and abuses of psychotropic drugs
 Foucault, Deleuze and the power of drugs
 8 Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity
 From the heroin scene to the heroin screen
 Deleuze and the cinema of heroin
 Heroinised bodies
 The cinematic fix
 Heroin's signature-autograph
 Heroin close-up.