Afterword: Intoxication as Zone of Exception
In “Afterword: Intoxication as a Zone of Exception,” Joseph M. Gabriel turns our eye to what lies past intoxication: getting trashed or wasted. Even as he concedes that intoxication at its extreme marks the impossible boundary beyond the articles collected in this issue, he refuses to throw out the...
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| Language: | English |
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New York City College of Technology
2016-04-01
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| Series: | NANO |
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| Online Access: | https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue9/afterword-intoxication-zone-exception |
| Summary: | In “Afterword: Intoxication as a Zone of Exception,” Joseph M. Gabriel turns our eye to what lies past intoxication: getting trashed or wasted. Even as he concedes that intoxication at its extreme marks the impossible boundary beyond the articles collected in this issue, he refuses to throw out the excess with the trash of its own terminology. Taken in the context of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben’s theories, extreme intoxication represents a user’s resistance to the ways that enlightenment rationality comes up against and frames individual agency. |
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| ISSN: | 2160-0104 |