NARCOCAPITALISM

What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the 19th century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac ha ve in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: the age of anaesthesia. I n Narcocapitalism, Laurent de Sutter shows how chemistry has become so much a part of us that we can't even see how much it has chan ged us. He retraces the unexpected stories that show how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our e motions ...[Read more]