Prologue: Two Millimeters Introduction Dropping Like Flies Anthropology and Intoxication The Art of Intoxication What Are We Forgetting? Unpacking the Toolkit Clock Time, Subjective Time, and Consciousness Contextual Chemicals Difference and Sameness, Phenomenology, and Psychodynamics Outline of the Book A Note on Gender Chapter 1: Itchy Park Fields of Play Itchy Park and Itchycoo Park The Welfare State and Spaces of Homelessness Homelessness and New Labour The Age of Austerity Chapter 2: Killing Time Itchy People Waste Not, Want Not Boredom: A Brief History Looking the Right Way The Rush Bittersweet Branches Chapter 3: Not Enough Going Out with a Bang The Godfather Taking the Piss The Rumor Mill Moving On Chapter 4: The Blackout Real Pain and Letting Go Interruptions and Dissociation Memory and Metamorphosis The Crisis of Presence Memory, Mourning, and Rituals of the Self The Singularity Chapter 5: Lost Time Remember What? Rewind and Fast Forward Swiss Cheese and Lost Time The Last Traveler Chapter 6: Becoming Somebody Else Amnesiac Ballads and Double Images Possession without Spirits Lost and Found Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Blackout The Strange and the Familiar Anthropological Poetics and White Holes Limitless References.
Becoming Somebody Else : Blackouts, Addiction, and Agency Amongst London's Homeless