439
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Think Piece

Pleasure and excess: Using Georges Bataille to locate an absent pleasure of consumption

Pages 258-268 | Received 22 Sep 2011, Accepted 27 Jun 2012, Published online: 31 Jul 2012

References

  • Bailey L. Control and desire: The issue of identity in popular discourses of addiction. Addiction Research & Theory 2005; 13: 535–543
  • Bancroft A, Wiltshire S, Parry O, Amos A. It's like an addiction first thing … afterwards it's like a habit: Daily smoking behaviour among people living in areas of deprivation. Social Science & Medicine (1982) 2003; 56: 1261–1267
  • Bataille G. The story of the eye. Penguin Modern Classics, London 1982
  • Bataille G, (1985). Visions of excess, selected writings, 1927–1939 (A. Stoekl, Trans., Vol. 14). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
  • Bataille G. Blue of noon. Marion Boyars, London 1986
  • Bataille G, (1988). Inner experience (L.A. Boldt, Trans.). New York, NY: State University of New York Press
  • Bataille G, (1991). The accursed share, Vol. 1 (R. Hurley, Trans.). New York, NY: Zone Books
  • Bataille G. Eroticism. Marion Boyars, London 2006
  • Bergschmidt V. Pleasure, power and dangerous substances: Applying Foucault to the study of ‘heroin dependence’ in Germany. Anthropology & Medicine 2004; 11: 59–73
  • Bourgois P. In search for respect: Selling crack in El Barrio. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995
  • Bourgois P. Righteous dopefiend. University of California Press., Berkeley 2009
  • Bunton R, Coveney J. Drugs’ pleasures. Critical Public Health, 2011; 21: 9–23
  • Clark M, Calleja K. Shopping adiction: A preliminary investigation among Maltese university students. Addiction Research & Theory 2008; 16: 633–649
  • Davies JB. The myth of addiction: An application of the psychological theory of attribution to illicit drug use. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 1992
  • Derrida J, (1976). Of grammatology (G.C. Spivak, Trans.). London: John Hopkins University Press
  • Duff C. Drug use as a ‘practice of the self’: Is there any place for an ‘ethics of moderation’ in contemporary drug policy?. The International Journal of Drug Policy 2004; 15: 385–393
  • Duff C. The pleasure in context. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 384–392
  • Dwyer R. Privileging pleasure: Temazepam injection in a heroin marketplace. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 367–374
  • Foucault M. Archaeology of knowledge. Routledge Classics, London 2002
  • Griffin C, Bengry-Howell A, Hackley C, Mistral W, Szmigin I. ‘Every time I do it I absolutely annihilate myself': Loss of (self-)consciousness and loss of memory in young people's drinking narratives. Sociology 2009; 43: 457–476
  • Habermas J. The philosophical discourse of modernity. Polity Press, Cambridge 1990
  • Holt M, Treloar C. Pleasure and drugs. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 349–352
  • Jarvinen M, Ostergaard J. Dangers and pleasures: Drug attitudes and experiences among young people. Acta Sociologica 2011; 54: 333–350
  • Keane H. What's wrong with addiction. Melbourne University Press, Victoria, Australia 2002
  • Keane H. Pleasure and discipline in the uses of Ritalin. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 401–409
  • Levine HG. The discovery of addiction. Changing conceptions of habitual drunkenness in America. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 1978; 39: 143–174
  • Lindeman M, Stark K. Pleasure, pursuit of health or negotiation of identity? Personality correlates of food choice motives among young and middle-aged women. Appetite 1999; 33: 141–161
  • Lukes S. Power: A radical view. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005
  • Measham F. The decline of ecstasy, the rise of ‘binge’ drinking and the persistence of pleasure. Probation Journal 2004; 51: 309–326
  • Moore D. Erasing pleasure from public discourse on illicit drugs: On the creation and reproduction of an absence. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 353–358
  • Moore D, Fraser S. Putting at risk what we know: Reflecting on the drug-using subject in harm reduction and its political implications. Social Science & Medicine 2006; 62: 3035–3047
  • Moore K, Measham F. It's the most fun you can have for twenty quid: Motivations, consequences and meanings of British Metamine use. Addiction Research & Theory 2008; 16: 231–244
  • Nietzsche F. Will to power. A Nietzsche reader, RJ Hollingdale. Penguin, London 1977; 215–232
  • O’Malley P, Valverde M. Pleasure, freedom and drugs: The uses of ‘pleasure’ in liberal governance of drug and alcohol consumption. Sociology 2004; 38: 25–42
  • O'shea A. Desiring desire: How desire makes us human, all too human. Sociology 2002; 36: 925–940
  • Pennay A, Moore D. Exploring the micro-politics of normalisation: Narratives of pleasure, self-control and desire in a sample of young Australian 'party drug' users. Addiction Research & Theory 2010; 18: 557–571
  • Reith G. Consumption and its discontents: Addiction, identity and the problems of freedom. The British Journal of Sociology 2004; 55: 283–300
  • Richardson M, (Ed.). (1998). Georges Bataille: Essential writings. London: SAGE Publications
  • Ritter A, Cameron J. A review of the efficacy and effectiveness of harm reduction strategies for alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review 2006; 25: 611–624
  • Seddon T. A history of drugs: Drugs and freedom in the liberal age. Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon 2010
  • Seddon T. What is a problem drug user?. Addiction Research & Theory 2011; 19: 334–343
  • Shilling C, Mellor PA. Sociology and the problem of eroticism. Sociology 2010; 44: 435–452
  • Shinebourne P, Smith JA. Alcohol and the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of addiction and its impact on the sense of self and identity. Addiction Research & Theory 2009; 17: 152–167
  • South N. Managing work, hedonism and ‘the borderline’ between the legal and the illegal markets: Two case studies of recreational heavy drug users. Addiction Research & Theory 2004; 12: 525–538
  • Taylor A. Women drug users: An ethnography of a female injecting community. Oxford University Press., Oxford 1993
  • Valentine K, Fraser S. Trauma, damage and pleasure: Rethinking problematic drug use. The International Journal on Drug Policy 2008; 19: 410–416
  • Valverde M. Diseases of the will: Alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998
  • Valverde M, White-Mair K. ‘One day at a time' and other slogans for everyday life: The ethical practices of alcoholics anonymous. Sociology 1999; 33: 393–410
  • Vitellone N. Habitus and social suffering: Culture, addiction and the syringe. The Sociological Review 2005; 52: 129–147
  • Young LB. Alcoholism and identity: How an alternative framing of identity can facilitate Alcoholics Anonymous research. Addiction Research & Theory 2011; 19: 213–223

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.