A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

ADDICTION AS A FORM OF MISFITTERY

Lidia Yuknavith, The Misfit's Manifesto, with artwork by Alex Brewer (HENSE) (New York: TED Books. Simon & Schuster, 20017):

Another kind of misfit, then, is the addict. The recovering addict as well as the addict in the throes of their addiction. I truly wish we had better words for all that though, because increasingly the gap between the so-called addicted person and the so-called not addicted person is closing.
Addiction may be the logical extension of late capitalism.

Id. at 83.