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In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and
material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially
than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and
contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society
underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which
portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation
between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally
affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of
everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times
drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and
practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and
cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines.
Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is
massively changing and expanding such cultural and material
conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between
drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction,
narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and
thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers
to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become
connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital
communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media
are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which
activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In
the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically
based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish
people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at
the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work
is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how
the technological developments in our contemporary world more
generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of
imagination for modern living. Over the recent years, psychological
research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for
how people deal with and live their lives has received growing
attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual
living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders
continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book
also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial
work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a
critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory
process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the
agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts
over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what
makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding
and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and
society. The book will primarily interest scholars of social
psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and
empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media,
materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners
working with addictions.
In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and
material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially
than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and
contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society
underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which
portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation
between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally
affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of
everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times
drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and
practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and
cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines.
Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is
massively changing and expanding such cultural and material
conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between
drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction,
narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and
thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers
to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become
connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital
communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media
are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which
activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In
the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically
based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish
people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at
the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work
is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how
the technological developments in our contemporary world more
generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of
imagination for modern living. Over the recent years, psychological
research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for
how people deal with and live their lives has received growing
attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual
living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders
continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book
also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial
work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a
critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory
process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the
agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts
over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what
makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding
and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and
society. The book will primarily interest scholars of social
psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and
empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media,
materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners
working with addictions.
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