Chemical species: the art and politics of living with(out) drugs after addiction.

IF 1.3 4区 医学 Q4 SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL Biosocieties Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-09-27 DOI:10.1057/s41292-022-00281-9
Fay Dennis
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We live within and are made up of ever-changing chemical flows. Witnessing a "chemical turn" in the social sciences, this article asks what a chemical reading of drugs and bodies can offer an understanding of drug dependency and recovery. Where chemicals render bodies "molecular" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987), they open them up to more intimate forms of connection that extend our understanding of drug-body relationships beyond limiting categories such as addiction. Rather than a chemical drug entering a biological body, there are chemical interactions that expand the boundaries of where one ends and the other begins. While chemicals have long been a preoccupation in neurological models of addiction, they are seldom taken up in sociological studies of these concerns. Drawing on a series of body-mapping workshops with people in drug recovery/treatment in London, UK, to track these chemical bodies, this article explores the art of living a chemically transformed life. This is an art that thinks with Isabelle Stengers' (in Stengers and Savransky, 2018) notion of the word to include "not paying attention" as a mode of "paying attention to what may lurk" in living with the ongoing effects of drugs in unequally entangled worlds.

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化学物种:成瘾后与毒品共存的艺术和政治
我们生活在不断变化的化学流中,并由化学流组成。随着社会科学的 "化学转向",本文提出了一个问题:对毒品和身体的化学解读能为我们理解毒品依赖和戒毒提供什么。化学物质使身体变得 "分子化"(德勒兹和瓜塔里,1987 年),它们为身体打开了更亲密的联系形式,使我们对毒品与身体关系的理解超越了成瘾等限制性范畴。与其说是化学药物进入生物体,不如说是化学作用扩大了两者之间的界限。长期以来,化学物质一直是成瘾的神经学模型所关注的问题,但在有关这些问题的社会学研究中却很少涉及。本文通过与英国伦敦的戒毒/治疗者进行一系列身体绘图工作坊,追踪这些化学物质的身体,探讨了化学变化的生活艺术。这种艺术与伊莎贝尔-施特恩格斯(Isabelle Stengers)(见施特恩格斯与萨弗兰斯基,2018 年)的概念一致,将 "不注意 "作为在不平等纠缠的世界中与毒品的持续影响共存时 "注意可能潜伏的东西 "的一种模式。
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Biosocieties
Biosocieties SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL-
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期刊介绍: BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. These developments are increasing our ability to control our own biology; enabling us to create novel life forms; changing our ideas of ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’; transforming our understanding of personal identity, family relations, ancestry and ‘race’; altering our social and personal expectations and responsibilities; reshaping global economic opportunities and inequalities; creating new global security challenges; and generating new social, ethical, legal and regulatory dilemmas. To address these dilemmas requires us to break out from narrow disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, and to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between biology and sociality and between the life sciences and society. BioSocieties provides a crucial forum where the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of these issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders. BioSocieties defines the key intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of the critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances. As the first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes scholarship across the social science disciplines, and represents a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. In its inaugural year BioSocieties demonstrated the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences. We are becoming the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work. The journal is international in scope, spanning research and developments in all corners of the globe. BioSocieties is published quarterly, with occasional themed issues that highlight some of the critical questions and problematics of modern biotechnologies. Articles, response pieces, review essays, and self-standing editorial pieces by social and life scientists form a regular part of the journal.
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