ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a theoretical investigation into the relationship between two different bodies: the body of the addict and the social body of the city. It explores how the urban landscape of capitalist modernity is folded into the body of the addict through perceptions of addiction as a physical, social, and moral pathology, affliction, and contagion leading to projections of the body-becoming-city-becoming-body. Early twentieth-century drug policies in Europe and North America were explicitly focused on the systematic control of illicit substances and their users, positing addiction as a fundamentally deviant form of behaviour requiring regulation, containment, discipline, and punishment. As a synthesis that resonates with both Foucault's insights into subjectivity and the production of bodies and Lefebvre's insights into the social production of space, the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides a useful complement to the discussion of the body of the addict and the social body of the city.
