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Anthropology of a Dream: The Stakes of Studying Addiction in America
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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sean Muller can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/anthropology-of-a-dream-the-stakes-of-studying-addiction-in-america/. About the post: Addiction emerges as a problem alongside the fantasy of a “good life” characterized by “upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and lively, durable intimacy” (Berlant 2011: 3). What habits and histories shape the endurance of this dream and why do we imagine anything different as a failure?
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