Chemical Youth

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‘Toxic worldings’: Introduction to toxic flows

“…Such moves into emerging futures can learn from anthropologies of intentional intoxication (Hardon et al 2017;Pine 2016). A reframing of pollution as an inescapable and essential part of living, and even as something to be positively engaged with or modulated, without losing sight of the underlying damage and pain (Chen 2012: 211), can challenge older distinctions of nature and culture, and of matter in and out of place, acknowledging a field of continuous, if potentially violent negotiation (Davis 2015).…”