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2. A Terminal Case

William Burroughs and the Logic of Addiction
  • Timothy Melley
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High Anxieties
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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. PART I. CONSTRUCTIONS OF ADDICTION
  7. 1. Addiction and the Ends of Desire 19
  8. 2. A Terminal Case 38
  9. PART II. FIGURES OF THE ORIENT
  10. 3. Narrating National Addictions 63
  11. 4. Victorian Highs 85
  12. PART III. DEMON DRINK
  13. 5. The Rhetoric of Addiction 97
  14. 6. Firewater Legacy 109
  15. PART IV. PLEASURES, REPRESSIONS, RESISTANCES
  16. 7. Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time 119
  17. 8. An Intoxicated Screen 134
  18. PART V. TRAUMA, MEDIA, CYBERSPACE
  19. 9. Welcome to the Pharmacy 161
  20. 10. If “Reality Is the Best Metaphor,” It Must Be Virtual 175
  21. NOTES 191
  22. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 225
  23. INDEX 227
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520935709-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. PART I. CONSTRUCTIONS OF ADDICTION
  7. 1. Addiction and the Ends of Desire 19
  8. 2. A Terminal Case 38
  9. PART II. FIGURES OF THE ORIENT
  10. 3. Narrating National Addictions 63
  11. 4. Victorian Highs 85
  12. PART III. DEMON DRINK
  13. 5. The Rhetoric of Addiction 97
  14. 6. Firewater Legacy 109
  15. PART IV. PLEASURES, REPRESSIONS, RESISTANCES
  16. 7. Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time 119
  17. 8. An Intoxicated Screen 134
  18. PART V. TRAUMA, MEDIA, CYBERSPACE
  19. 9. Welcome to the Pharmacy 161
  20. 10. If “Reality Is the Best Metaphor,” It Must Be Virtual 175
  21. NOTES 191
  22. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 225
  23. INDEX 227
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