Literature and Intoxication: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present....Pages 25-51
The Green Jam of ‘Doctor X’: Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins....Pages 52-63
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Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille....Pages 67-80
‘Riding the Lines’: The Poetics of the ‘Chevauchements’ in Henri Michaux’s Drug Experiments....Pages 81-96
Fabulous Operas, Rock ‘n’ Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison....Pages 97-116
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Tipsiness and ‘the Reigning Stupefaction’ in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s....Pages 119-129
‘Drink, She Said’: Around the World of Durassian Alcohol....Pages 130-144
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Intoxication and Toxicity in a ‘Pharmacopornographic Era’: Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie ....Pages 147-159
A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive ....Pages 160-172
‘Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l’alcoolisme’: A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International....Pages 173-184
Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence....Pages 185-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-209