Sadie Plant traces the history of drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use as an avenue to spiritual
transcendence, Plants focuses on the way that drugs themselves make precise, recognizable interventions in consciousness, in cultural life, in politics. She argues that the use, production, and trafficking of drugs-narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens-have shaped some of the era's most fundamental
philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth.AUTHORBIO: Sadie Plant is the author, most recently, of Zeroes + Ones. She has been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow at the…
I was thrilled when I stumbled across this book in a book store. I rushed home and started reading immediately, as I had long since wanted to read a book on the subject. And to her credit, Ms. Plant… Disjointed, disconnected, and shrouded in mystery all seem to be themes which surround drugs, whether one is speaking of
their history, their effects, or their economics and regulation. Sadie Plant…
