Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

Chapter 2 Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present

Chapter 3 The Green Jam of ‘Doctor X’: Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins

Chapter 4 Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille

Chapter 5 ‘Riding the Lines’: The Poetics of the ‘ Chevauchements ’ in Henri Michaux’s Drug Experiments

Chapter 6 Fabulous Operas, Rock ‘n’ Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison

Chapter 7 Tipsiness and ‘the Reigning Stupefaction’ in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s

Chapter 8 ‘Drink, She Said’: Around the World of Durassian Alcohol

Chapter 9 Intoxication and Toxicity in a ‘Pharmacopornographic Era’: Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie

Chapter 11 ‘ Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l’alcoolisme ’: A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International

Chapter 12 Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence