{"product_id":"intoxicated-9781478020561","title":"Intoxicated","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIntoxicated \u003c\/i\u003eMel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through toxicity. Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland’s racialization and targeting of Aboriginal peoples through its ostensible concern with black opium, Chen explores how the colonial administration of race and disability gives rise to “intoxicated” subjects often shadowed by slowness. Chen charts the ongoing reverberations of these chemical entanglements in art and contemporary moments of political and economic conflict or agitation. Although intoxicated subjects may be affected by ongoing pollution or discredited as agents of failure, Chen affirmatively identifies queer\/crip forms of unlearning and worl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIntoxicated\u003c\/i\u003e thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” -- Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e“In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” -- M. Murphy, author of * The Economization of Life *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  18\u003cbr\u003e 2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100\u003cbr\u003e Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  177\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409014366551,"sku":"9781478020561","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020561.jpg?v=1730505093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intoxicated-9781478020561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}