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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 On Drugs
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'On Drugs explores philosopher Chris Fleming’s experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student and then becomes a life-threatening obsession.

'Fleming describes the intricate mechanics of drug acquisition and use, their impact on the intellect and the emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly controlled life spins out of control. His account is informed by searching reflections on his childhood, with its acute obsessive compulsive disorder and auditory hallucinations, through to his teenage fixations on karate, music and bodybuilding magazines. Combining a meticulous, almost ethnographic observation of his own life with a keen sense of the absurd, On Drugs opens out into philosophical meditations on time, religion, popular culture and the body.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2019 .
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      Extent: 280p.p.
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      • Published August 2019.

      ISBN: 9781925818178
      Series: y separately published work icon Giramondo Poets Giramondo Publishing (publisher), Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2006- Z1440074 2006 series - publisher

Works about this Work

On Drugs by Chris Fleming James Arbuthnott , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2019;

— Review of On Drugs Chris Fleming , 2019 single work autobiography

'Academic Chris Fleming’s memoir is confronting, interesting, reassuring and offers insight into who and what drug addicts are.'

The Last Bulwark James Antoniou , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 20)

— Review of On Drugs Chris Fleming , 2019 single work autobiography

'Literature inspired by drugs tends to swing between extremes. On the one hand, drugs are the very doors of perception, gateways to Xanadu; on the other they are a source of grim addictions, lotus plants that tempt one into indefinite living sleep. In recent decades there have been the highs of William S. Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Irvine Welsh, but rarer are those memoirists with experiences of addiction and philosophy who can reflect on the subject in the tradition of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Well, cue Chris Fleming’s On Drugs.'(Introduction)

The Last Bulwark James Antoniou , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 20)

— Review of On Drugs Chris Fleming , 2019 single work autobiography

'Literature inspired by drugs tends to swing between extremes. On the one hand, drugs are the very doors of perception, gateways to Xanadu; on the other they are a source of grim addictions, lotus plants that tempt one into indefinite living sleep. In recent decades there have been the highs of William S. Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Irvine Welsh, but rarer are those memoirists with experiences of addiction and philosophy who can reflect on the subject in the tradition of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Well, cue Chris Fleming’s On Drugs.'(Introduction)

On Drugs by Chris Fleming James Arbuthnott , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2019;

— Review of On Drugs Chris Fleming , 2019 single work autobiography

'Academic Chris Fleming’s memoir is confronting, interesting, reassuring and offers insight into who and what drug addicts are.'

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