![]() ![]() He researches narco-violence in Mexico, placed within an interdisciplinary global framework that highlights the interpenetration of cultural production and the problem of psychotropy. Paul Chain Violet Theatre 'Detaching From Satan' Lp. However, Paul Chain Violet Theatre has much more of a psychedelic vibe to it and there are various interludes containing chants and keyboards for eerie effect. ![]() Joseph Patteson (PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) is Assistant Professor at Augustana University, USA. Paul Chain Violet Theatre 'Detaching From Satan' Lp third pressing 1988. The music on ✽etaching From Satan« sounds very 70’s influenced, not unlike other doom acts at the time, such as Pentagram, Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar et al. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. – Julio Ramos, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA His groundbreaking approach to the subject of intoxication opens an unexplored comparative route between North and South, cutting across habit forming disciplinary and generic boundaries that insist on keeping psychotropics, aesthetic experimentation, and drug wars apart.” “Joseph Patteson has produced a perceptive cognitive and affective mapping of drugs in contemporary Latin American literature. – Sayak Valencia, author of Gore Capitalism (2010), and research professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico ![]() "A surprising reading of an extremely important problem that surpasses previous studies of narcoculture and presents us with a broader image of consumer societies, their addictions, and the way narcography configures a psychic architecture of modernity informed by distinct cultural products and areas of knowledge." ![]()
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