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The Alchemy of Meth audiobook
- By: Jason Pine
- Narrator: Jason Pine
- Category: Human Geography, Social Science
- Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Meth Audiobook Summary
Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy–transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life.”
The Alchemy of Meth is a nonfiction storybook about St. Jude County, Missouri, a place in decomposition, where the toxic inheritance of deindustrialization meets the violent hope of this drug-making cottage industry. Jason Pine bases the book on fieldwork among meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, public defenders, narcotics agents, and pharmaceutical executives. Here, St. Jude is not reduced to its meth problem but Pine looks at meth through materials, landscapes, and institutions: the sprawling context that makes methlabs possible. The Alchemy of Meth connects DIY methlabs to big pharma’s superlabs, illicit speed to the legalized speed sold as ADHD medication, uniquely implicating the author’s own story in the narrative.
By the end of the book, the backdrop of St. Jude becomes the foreground. It could be a story about life and work anywhere in the United States, where it seems no one is truly clean and all are complicit in the exploitation of their precious resources in exchange for a livable present–or even the hope of a future.
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The Alchemy of Meth Audiobook Narrator
Jason Pine is the narrator of The Alchemy of Meth audiobook that was written by Jason Pine
Jason Pine is professor of anthropology and media studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. He is author of The Art of Making Do in Naples.
About the Author(s) of The Alchemy of Meth
Jason Pine is the author of The Alchemy of Meth
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The Alchemy of Meth Full Details
| Narrator | Jason Pine |
| Length | 4 hours 46 minutes |
| Author | Jason Pine |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094125732 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Alchemy of Meth is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Human Geography, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the The Alchemy of Meth is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094125732.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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