On Heroin: America, Capitalism, and the Search for Meaning

by Brian Francis Culkin

The crisis of heroin addiction has become a full blown epidemic in contemporary American society and it is perhaps best articulated as the emblematic pathology of neoliberal globalization. But today, heroin addiction can no longer be reduced to the singular addict. It must also be seen as a collective sickness that references the ongoing collapse of community, the infiltration of technology into our public and biological spaces, as well as the psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1791602487
• ISBN13: 9781791602482
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"