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 […]

I just finished reading a really interesting article by Daniel Nunn (pdf) that details William Halsted’s thirty-year cocaine addiction.  Halsted was the first professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, and has been widely credited with being the first to describe the principle of local anesthesia by blocking nerves.  In the 1880s, Halsted developed a […]

How can the world, which is given as the object of knowledge, be at the same time also the place where the ethical subject of truth manifests and tests itself? How can we have a subject of knowledge that takes the world as its object through a techne, and a subject of self-experience that takes […]