ABSTRACT
In popular discourse surrounding drugs, the notion of substance is invoked as something that can be used, abused, and misused, rendering it tool like: an instrument that can be employed to perform and achieve certain ends. Although the discursive shift from illicit to controlled substance renders transparent the inherent complexity of the substance/space/subjectivity inter-/intra-dynamic, the antecedent to these terms in the form of foreign substance serves to locate both the object and subject of drug/addiction. Revealing the curious transitory roots/routes of transgressive Other-mediated incorporations, the notion of 'foreign substance' thus provokes new questions surrounding borders, boundaries, and socio-spatial bodies. Representing a crucially influential political poetic expression of anarchist political philosophy, the creative destructive reinventions that compose the history of the twentieth century European avant garde contain an equally vivid and central emphasis on the space of disorder in the capitalist cityscape, ruthlessly redeveloped and hyper regulated with each new phase of narcotic modernity.
