Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "e;our narcotic modernity."e; The first section - Drug/Culture - demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "e;controlled"e; substance. Positing addiction as a "e;pathology (out) of place"e; that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section - Dope/Sick - conducts a critique of the prevailing pathology paradigm of addiction, proposing in its place a theoretical reconceptualization of drug dependence in the terms of "e;p/re/in-scription."e; Remapping the successive stages or phases of our narcotic modernity, the third section - Narco/State - delineates three primary eras of narcotic modernity, including the contemporary city of "e;safe"e;/"e;supervised"e; consumption. Employing an experimental, "e;intra-textual"e; format, the fourth section - Brain/Disease - mimics the sense, state or scape of intoxication accompanying each permutation of narcotic modernity in the interchangeable terms of drug, dream and/or disease. Tracing the parallel evolution of "e;addiction,"e; the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book thus together constitute a users' guide to urban space.

Part One: Drug/Culture: At Home in the Addicted City 1. Drug/Culture: Addiction, Modernity, and the City 2. Bodies of Substance: The (Abject) Body of the Addict and the Social Body of the (Addicted) City 3. Medi(t)ations on/of Controlled, Foreign and/or Illicit Substance Part Two: Dope/Sick: Bootstraps, Brain Diseases and the Depathologization of Drug Dependence 4. Pathology (out) of Place and the Disorder of Drugs 5. Depathologizing Drug Dependence: P/re/in-scription, Consumer Capitalism and Control Societies Part Three: Narco/State: Excavating the Socio-Spatial Permutations of Narcotic Modernity 6. Socio-Spatial Permutations of Narcotic Modernity: The Cities of Phantasmagoria and Shock, Spectacle and Alienation 7. The Contemporary Cityscape as Site of Safe/Supervised Consumption Part Four: Brain/Disease: The Deafening Internal Dialogue of Fractal Interiorities 8. The Intoxication of Narcotic Modernity: Cyborg Subjectivity, Urban Space, and the Media/Technology of Substance 9. Postscript to P/re/in-scription: A Users' Guide to Urban Space