The Banana Peel Project

There seems to be a misunderstanding here.  Drugs are tools, technologies of the self, material objects that allow individuals to work on their bodies and minds in certain ways.  Of course, they haven’t always been seen in this way, and they certainly haven’t always been available to the degree or in the same way as […]

A relatively young man hobbles, in good spirits, into a medical marijuana cooperative.  He’s proud of having made it to the co-op today, his new aluminum cane giving him the style, confidence, and stability to find new places to interrogate, explore, and (yes) even to obtain his medicine.  And mirrored windows notwithstanding, this place showed […]

“Who’s watching your drink? Let your hair down, not your guard.” In bright pink with big black block lettering, of course.
“Enjoy your night.  Know your limits.  Zero tolerance towards violence.”
A textual exhibition of the physiology of alcohol (and its rapacious others).  A drug defines its own textuality, its own social limits, its own legal presence […]