Alcoholic assemblages: Exploring fluid subjects in the night-time economy |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle 10, 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;2. Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Artillerivej 90, 2, 2300 København S, Denmark;3. Institute for Scientific Analysis, 1150 Ballena Blvd., Alameda, CA 94501, USA;1. University of Sydney, Australia;2. University of Technology Sydney, Australia;3. Australian National University, Australia;1. Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, 20 Chancellors Walk, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia;2. Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;3. German Institute for Addiction and Prevention Research (DISuP), Catholic University of Applied Sciences, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany;4. Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, John Goodsell Building, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Developing the notion of assemblage, this paper seeks to extend our understanding of drunkenness by exploring young people’s drinking practices in the night-time economy of Copenhagen, Denmark. The main argument is that drunkenness is an embodied and social practice which, in relation to a multiplicity of actors and forces particular to the place of drinking, increases and/or decreases the drunken body’s capacities to affect and be affected. Accordingly, Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage will be mobilized to cast light on how drunkenness emerges as the product of unpredictable yet patterned encounters between discourses, bodies (human and nonhuman), spaces, different drinks and consumption practices. In the analysis, which draws on qualitative empirical data from extensive fieldwork in a mainstream nightclub in Copenhagen, Denmark, it is shown how the drinking subjects’ capacity to initiate and sustain a number of – social, musical and sexual – relationships are altered by the consumption of alcohol in relation to the specific assemblage in which this consumption is enacted. |
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| Keywords: | Night-time economy Alcohol Drunkenness Deleuze and Guattari Assemblage Denmark |
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