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Original Articles

The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

Pages 165-177 | Published online: 09 Nov 2010
 

Abstract

This paper considers the object of the syringe-in-use for IV drug users. Via an engagement with performative stories of the “rush” I suggest this object experience concerns not a conditioned effect but the materiality of the syringe itself. I also suggest that an analysis of the rush as a technical materialization challenges existing interpretations of heroin use. In particular, it challenges understandings of the syringe as an object that threatens a coherent body image, gender identity, and sexed differences.

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