Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects: Addicts, the Undead, and the Long Arc of Theory in Western Social Science

This paper explores the Western philosophical idea of “appetites” through the lens of “addiction.” I begin with a brief ethnographic description of a woman whose subjectivity seems to emerge only in the play of her unmanageable desire for various pharmaceuticals. In other words, she is a self-descri...

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Auteur principal: Saris A. Jamie
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: Sciendo 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/ae2a937468674b6f98f08f2aad8815db
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