02763cam a2200277 i 4500 991107453485106196 20250310144331.0 240829s2024 nyu b 000 0 eng d 9781945335198 paperback (OCoLC)1464701291 (OCoLC)on1464701291 IG# eng rda IG# YDX HB501 .S64 2024 Spencer, Annie Xibos, author. 24845 How to break an addiction : a method-in-a-manifesto for quitting capitalism / Annie Xibos Spencer. Brooklyn, NY : Common Notions, [2024] xv, 253 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references. Everyday life in permanent crisis — Teaching economics at the end of the paradigm — Finding a fix — What of the “addict”? — Capital is a fiend — Tramps like us — Addiction as an accumulation strategy — Bodies in revolt. What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeand how we free ourselves from it.How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction.In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant progressive presumption of the need to reform (or save) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.How To Break An Addiction renders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addictionin capitals imageand against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called epidemic of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencers first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capitals addiction to crisis and our abilityand needto break from it. Capitalism Social aspects. Capitalism Philosophy. Compulsive behavior 11408 Opioid abuse 21st century. lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-03-10 1 HB501 SPE B05926 2025-06-11 2025-04-30 1 2025-03-10 1 4517 4517