Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood
S2 Ep5: Morphine Addiction, Decadence & Degeneration, and Fin-de-Siècle Paris
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Aug 28, 2023 at 8:00 am.
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Emma and Christy use Eugène Grasset's lithograph Morphinomaniac (1897) as a starting point to talk about artistic depictions of morphine and historical opioid addiction, as well as decadence and degeneration in fin-de-siècle Parisian society. In this episode, we cover vampires, hypodermic syringes, Orientalism and Japonisme, 'dangerous' women, masturbation, pleasure, and sex work, true crime waxworks, and gendered consumption — of women, goods, and drugs.