... in Imperial Britain . London : Verso , forthcoming 1993 . Rickels Laurence A . Aberrations of Mourning: Writing on German Crypts . Detroit : Wayne State UP , 1988 . Ronell Avital . Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania . Lincoln : U of Nebraska P , 1992 . Rose Jacqueline...

...: Entretiens (Paris: Galilee, 1992). Michael Israel's translation was first published in 1-800 2 (1991). Eds. When the sky of transcendence comes to be emptied, a fatal rhetoric fills the void, and this is the fetishism of drug addiction. A: You are not a specialist in the study of drug addiction, yet we...

...Naomi Schor; Elizabeth Weed Copyright © 1993 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1993 Editors' note. Today's discourses of addiction depict a society under the influence - from the compulsive clients of the therapeutic industry, to the more populist...

... issue that is devoted to the question of addiction. At first glance, this anxiety may seem misplaced; after all, my paper investigates representations of Elvis Presley, and who could serve as a better emblem of the problems of addiction than he?1 But such a justification is surely too flip...

... War on Drugs In 2018, the Trump administration issued a quartet of public service announcements addressing the opioid epidemic. In the service of Trump’s plan to fight opioid addiction by “spending a lot of money” making “very, very bad commercials” that could scare kids straight—“We need people...

... could be caused by feeblemindedness; physical and moral exhaustion, from the effects of neurasthenia or morphine addiction; and most commonly, hysteria, in addition to which Dubuisson cited all those "critical periods" in the female reproductive cycle capable of affecting the brain: menstruation...

... certainly desired” (64). Even though he was constantly mistreated by the Germans, he probably thought of himself “not as a servant but as a lord.” He was, Levi tells us, addicted to power, and the addiction led to all sorts of problems: a “distorted view of the world, dogmatic arrogance, the need...

... point out, if Moore were a pedophile, he ought to seek treatment. Indeed, both Spacey and Harvey Weinstein have sought to preempt consequences for their actions by checking into The Meadows, a facility that treats “sex addiction.” However, the feminist demand, Cleaves and Syrett argue, is not treatment...

... -132. Marcuse, Herbert. “The Affirmative Character of Culture.” Negations: Essays in Critical Theory . Trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro. Boston: Beacon, 1968 . 88 -133. Margolis, Stacey. “Addiction and the Ends of Desire.” High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction . Ed. Janet Farrell Brodie...

... . Ronell Avital . Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania . Lincoln : U of Nebraska P , 1992 . Total Recall . Dir. Verhoeven Paul . Tri-Star Pictures , 1990 . A VITAL RONELL VideolTelevision/Rodney King: Twelve Steps beyond The Pleasure Principal The following is a conference paper...

... .” Representations of Motherhood . Ed. Bassin D. , Honey M. , and Kaplan M. . New Haven : Yale UP , 1994 . 129 - 46 . Bennington Geoffrey and Derrida Jacques . Jacques Derrida . Paris : Seuil , 1991 . Bowers John M . “ Augustine as Addict: Sex and Text...

... at risk” (World at Risk)— holds that the growth of capitalist modernity is predicated on dangerous risk at the individual, social, and planetary levels. (Addiction and obesity induced by the fat-sugar-salt fast-food triumvirate...

..., Addiction,Mania . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1992 . ———. Dictations: On Haunted Writing . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986 . ———. Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994 . ———. Stupidity . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002 . ———. The Telephone Book...

..., but often end up on the path of self-destruction. It looks as if free consumers end by consuming themselves. The escalation of various types of self-harm, anorexia, bulimia, and the growing problem of addiction supports...

... with painkillers, is an addict. Indeed, the novel on which the film is based, also called Misery , is much more explicit about Annie’s status as a pathological reader rather than just a fan; the narrator declares that “Annie Wilkes was the perfect audience, a woman who lived stories without having...

.... As in previous novels, the war- like conditions visited upon the country and the city by corrupt politicians and criminal organizations have a sexual dimension. The intersecting careers of the young Katja, a drug addict whose family sells her...

... of deviance studied homosexuality alongside prostitution, delinquency, addiction, disability, and other forms of social marginality. While such a grouping might be seen as pathologizing, these researchers aimed to normalize homosexuality along with a broad range of nonconforming behaviors. Questioning...

... For more on this idea, see McGowan, Enjoying What We Don’t Have . 2 In Society of the Spectacle , Guy Debord provides an exemplary line of critique that aims to liberate people from their addiction to ideological fantasy, which he compares to a drug addiction. He writes, “The spectacle...

... or entirely lacking health insurance, economic misery, drug addiction, crumbling and quickly disappearing government support, devastation of American cities and towns, zero new infrastructure and infrastructure maintenance) precisely for the blue-collar white working class that blindly and unshakably supports...

... of the hieroglyph. Political conversion is not analysis; its moralizing and condescending diagnosis does nothing more than fetishize “hope and love” against the hieroglyph’s message. We might charge West with fetish hedonism , the rapture of disavowal and addiction to fantasy objects, as he misdiagnoses...