Becoming enwinded: A new materialist take on smoking pleasure

What might new materialist perspectives bring to our understanding of smoking pleasure? In this paper, I draw on this thinking to sketch out an alternative, non-unitary smoker who is at the mercy of the whims of the breeze − a yielding I will argue is key to smoking pleasure. With these intentions in mind, rather than thinking of what the biotechnology of cigarettes accomplishes in terms of the chemical delivery of pleasure, or adding to the multiply of social and cultural reasons anthropologists have tendered to ac count for it, I approach smoking pleasure in and through the medium of the smoky air.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research