Psychedelics as pharmacological technologies – Aleksi Hupli

Aleksi Hupli's lecture "Psychedelics as pharmacological technologies: instrumental drug use and politicogenetic effects" from the Psykedeelit 2023 conference held in Turku, Finland on November 23–24, 2023.

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"In this presentation I use the ‘drugs as instruments’ framework and review Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical drug studies and anthropology of pharmaceuticals literature to frame psychedelics as pharmacological technologies. By discussing especially psychedelic microdosing this approach is situated in the new materialist turn in critical drug studies and uses Latourian notion of nonhuman actors to focus on the ‘social effects’ of psychedelics which include various extra-pharmacological variables. These extra-pharmacological variables include what the author refers to as politicogenic drug effects, meaning effects that derive from contemporary drug policing."

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