Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." Tracing and tracking the zones of modern dependencies, she deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictive mappings that are culturally accepted - an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself as well as the satellite technologies of our everyday existence.
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"At the center of Crack Wars is Ronell's constitutive reading of Madame Bovary, that 'clinic of phantasms, ' the urtext of toxic modernity."
Avital Ronell is a professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University.
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