Dear DHI members,
NANO: New American Notes Online, a City Tech humanities and digital humanities journal, has officially published Issue 9: Intoxication. This special issue is the result of a collaboration between guest editors Ingrid Walker (University of Washington, Tacoma) and Alexine Fleck (Community College of Philadelphia), the seven article authors, and NANO’s editorial team: Sean Scanlan, Ruth Garcia, and Rebecca Devers.
This special issue of NANO asks whether intoxication is a zone of defiance or expanded consciousness or narcotized stupor, or perhaps some combination of these. The guest editors remark that this issue “seek[s] to reconceptualize intoxication through a series of multidisciplinary analyses. The analyses included here explore the possibilities of understanding intoxication as an intentional performance and a transgression of cultural norms. By reflecting on what intoxication can offer to the user and/or what it might provide as a lens to scholars, these pieces open up a very different dialogue about this relatively unexamined state of being.”
Table of Contents:
Issue 9: Intoxication
Guest Edited by: Alexine Fleck and Ingrid Walker
◼︎ Editor’s Introduction for NANO Special Issue 9: Intoxication by Alexine Fleck and Ingrid Walker
◼︎ Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman by Ingrid Walker
◼︎ Coming to (the History of) Our Senses: A New Methodology and Category of Analysis for Drug Historians? by Kyle Bridge
◼︎ The Price of Eternal Vigilance: Women and Intoxication by Michelle McClellan
◼︎ Intoxication as Feminist Pleasure: Drinking, Dancing, and Un-Dressing with/for Jenni Rivera by Yessica Garcia Hernandez
◼︎ Sugar Highs and Lows: Is Sugar Really a Drug? by Kima Cargill
◼︎ “Fringes blown by the wind”: High Hopes for Expanded Consciousness in Benjamin and Brecht by Lauren Hawley
◼︎ Afterword: Intoxication as Zone of Exception by Joseph M. Gabriel
Visit the journal at: http://www.nanocrit.com
Would you like to be a guest editor for a special issue of NANO? Interested in submitting reviews or interviews? Contact: sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu; editornano@citytech.cuny.edu
Sean Scanlan, founder and editor
