Pisma odurzajce. Excitantia: amfetamina i ecstasy
Intoxicating Writings: Drugs and Literature from Homer to Will Self
Author(s): Cecile GulibertContributor(s): Juliusz Cęcelewski (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Studies of Literature, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: intoxicating substances; drugs; amphetamine; ecstasy; GHB; twentieth-century literary history; twenty-first-century literary history; cyberspace; cyberpunk; history of counter culture
Summary/Abstract: The history of psychostimulants (amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA and GHBamong many others) intersects with the social, political and literary history of the lastcentury, it concerns new phenomena and social practices as well as novel tendenciesin the arts. From the Dexedrine consumed by American soldiers in Korea and Vietnamthrough Alexander Shulgin’s “pharmacology of consciousness,” the emergence ofcyberpunk and the popularity of ecstasy in the 1990s, to the nihilistic descriptions ofdrug-induced highs typical of twenty-first-century novels and short stories, Guilberthighlights the diverse ways in which the consummation of new synthetic intoxicatingsubstances has impacted the history of the last century.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 267-281
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish
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