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Drug-craft: On the configurations of psychedelic efficacies. Swasti Mishra, Jun 5, 2020, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, ISBN: 9789402820720 (PhD Thesis)
Psychedelic drugs are seeing a major comeback, especially in the West, where their potential to revolutionize psychiatry is gaining attention amid a global ‘mental illness epidemic.’ Medico-scientific practices are underway to test their pharmaceutical and therapeutic relevance; practices that shape future pathways for psychedelic efficacies that may be legitimized by state regulators. However, psychedelics are often enrolled in practices that fall outside or emerge alongside institutionally credentialed forms of drug efficacies. Swasti Mishra ethnographically explores a diverse range of practices that include psychedelic drugs. For instance, microdosing for work, music festivals, advocacy, psychotherapy oriented clinical studies, amateur research; interdisciplinary conferences and public health efforts to establish regulations and care for users.
Mishra demonstrates how these practices generate their own norms and produce their own forms of collective self-regulation with elements of shared knowledge across various sites of use. She argues that when considering drug effects, the configurations through which efficaciousness of drugs is crafted be taken into account. These provide more nuanced and potentially more effective ways of handling drugs, which are better adapted to the diversity of contexts and locally specific concerns in which drug effects emerge. In a time when both the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and the ‘war on drugs’ against non-medical uses remains a dominant and increasingly critiqued approach to controlling substances, Mishra provides new tools to approach how drugs come to matter. These tools offer empirically guided creative ways to think about, provisionally support, or intervene, in the continuously reshaping drug configurations across society.
A download can be found towards the bottom of the page.
This photo was taken from an interview of hers called "Chemical Creativity":
Hardon, A. (2021). Chemical Creativity. In: Chemical Youth. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1_8
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1_8/figures/6
I was anxious to post this article because it features a transcript of Kary Mullis stating that he doubts that he would have invented polymerase chain reaction if he hadn't taken LSD. He said this during a documentary interview, the BBC's Psychedelic Science of 1997. The article follows this up by referencing the brain-imaging study done at Imperial College London. See pg. 44 in chapter 1. The aforementioned footage is between 39:01 and 40:49 in this video: https://mega.nz/file/FwhBxCjL#UeCnJ57qxob9vYLMd9CfxuEgwenFWQgHZ2dSTNhV1B8 MAPS published a review of this documentary: On the Crest of a Wave: A Brief Review of the BBC's Horizon Special Psychedelic Experience. Simon G. Powell, MAPS Newsletter vol. 7, #2, Spring 1997
This came up when searching for Kary Mullis & LSD. Other things that came up:
https://medium.com/predict/how-an-e...-test-under-the-influence-of-lsd-611135f667db
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ychedelic_drugs_in_enhancing_human_creativity
https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/psychedelics-summit-intercollegiate-penn-lsd-upenn
https://maps.org/news/media/seeker-...rip-psychedelic-science-is-making-a-comeback/
https://psilocybin-research.com/misc/kary-b-mullis-getting-down-with-the-molecules/
https://observatory.synthesisretreat.com/scientists-say-psychedelics-boost-your-creativity
https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-of-a-biology-revolution-63126
https://aidanlyon.com/blog/discovering-connection-through-the-psychedelic-looking-glass/
Psychedelics as potential catalysts of scientific creativity and insight
I'm very intrigued by the aidanlyon.com blog entry because it starts off with an excerpt of one of my favorite psychedelic quotes and because of the image he chose to use in the header.
It does not seem to be an exaggeration to say that psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy. These tools make it possible to study important processes that under normal circumstances are not available for direct observation.
Grof, Stanislav. 1975. Realms of the human unconscious: Observations from LSD research. New York: Viking Press. 1. General Introduction / Heuristic Value of LSD Research
Psychedelic drugs are seeing a major comeback, especially in the West, where their potential to revolutionize psychiatry is gaining attention amid a global ‘mental illness epidemic.’ Medico-scientific practices are underway to test their pharmaceutical and therapeutic relevance; practices that shape future pathways for psychedelic efficacies that may be legitimized by state regulators. However, psychedelics are often enrolled in practices that fall outside or emerge alongside institutionally credentialed forms of drug efficacies. Swasti Mishra ethnographically explores a diverse range of practices that include psychedelic drugs. For instance, microdosing for work, music festivals, advocacy, psychotherapy oriented clinical studies, amateur research; interdisciplinary conferences and public health efforts to establish regulations and care for users.
Mishra demonstrates how these practices generate their own norms and produce their own forms of collective self-regulation with elements of shared knowledge across various sites of use. She argues that when considering drug effects, the configurations through which efficaciousness of drugs is crafted be taken into account. These provide more nuanced and potentially more effective ways of handling drugs, which are better adapted to the diversity of contexts and locally specific concerns in which drug effects emerge. In a time when both the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and the ‘war on drugs’ against non-medical uses remains a dominant and increasingly critiqued approach to controlling substances, Mishra provides new tools to approach how drugs come to matter. These tools offer empirically guided creative ways to think about, provisionally support, or intervene, in the continuously reshaping drug configurations across society.
A download can be found towards the bottom of the page.
This photo was taken from an interview of hers called "Chemical Creativity":
Hardon, A. (2021). Chemical Creativity. In: Chemical Youth. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1_8
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1_8/figures/6
I was anxious to post this article because it features a transcript of Kary Mullis stating that he doubts that he would have invented polymerase chain reaction if he hadn't taken LSD. He said this during a documentary interview, the BBC's Psychedelic Science of 1997. The article follows this up by referencing the brain-imaging study done at Imperial College London. See pg. 44 in chapter 1. The aforementioned footage is between 39:01 and 40:49 in this video: https://mega.nz/file/FwhBxCjL#UeCnJ57qxob9vYLMd9CfxuEgwenFWQgHZ2dSTNhV1B8 MAPS published a review of this documentary: On the Crest of a Wave: A Brief Review of the BBC's Horizon Special Psychedelic Experience. Simon G. Powell, MAPS Newsletter vol. 7, #2, Spring 1997
This came up when searching for Kary Mullis & LSD. Other things that came up:
https://medium.com/predict/how-an-e...-test-under-the-influence-of-lsd-611135f667db
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ychedelic_drugs_in_enhancing_human_creativity
https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/psychedelics-summit-intercollegiate-penn-lsd-upenn
https://maps.org/news/media/seeker-...rip-psychedelic-science-is-making-a-comeback/
https://psilocybin-research.com/misc/kary-b-mullis-getting-down-with-the-molecules/
https://observatory.synthesisretreat.com/scientists-say-psychedelics-boost-your-creativity
https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-of-a-biology-revolution-63126
https://aidanlyon.com/blog/discovering-connection-through-the-psychedelic-looking-glass/
Psychedelics as potential catalysts of scientific creativity and insight
I'm very intrigued by the aidanlyon.com blog entry because it starts off with an excerpt of one of my favorite psychedelic quotes and because of the image he chose to use in the header.
It does not seem to be an exaggeration to say that psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy. These tools make it possible to study important processes that under normal circumstances are not available for direct observation.
Grof, Stanislav. 1975. Realms of the human unconscious: Observations from LSD research. New York: Viking Press. 1. General Introduction / Heuristic Value of LSD Research
