ABSTRACT
Binary thinking dominates how we understand drug use in terms of the drug-using subject and their object. Chapter 1 sets out the book’s aim to disrupt such thinking by mapping drug-using bodies and, more specifically, injecting bodies in all their more-than-human ways. By refusing to write in a priori separations between bodies, including the researcher and researched, the chapter seeks to attend to the otherwise neglected affects, matter and practices in reconceiving what it is to inject drugs: its agencies, experiences, and embodiments. Moreover, the chapter proposes that by becoming-with bodies, we can actively change their course. Drawing bodies together in these new ways (quite literally in the case of a visual method, body mapping), the chapter lays out a way of knowing and interfering-with the contingencies and precarity of drug effects to be taken forward in the following chapters.
