Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  11. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  182. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  623. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142Notes  165Bibliography  177Index

“Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” - Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University “In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” - M. Murphy, author of (The Economization of Life) "Taking an impressively expansive, interdisciplinary approach, Chen situates the book within critical ethnic and race studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, but the work also has clear historical, historiographical, and autobiographical impulses. ... [A] strange, but eminently brilliant and enjoyable, book."- Andrew Bellamy (H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews)

Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  11. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  182. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  623. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142Notes  165Bibliography  177Index

“Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” - Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University “In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” - M. Murphy, author of (The Economization of Life) "Taking an impressively expansive, interdisciplinary approach, Chen situates the book within critical ethnic and race studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, but the work also has clear historical, historiographical, and autobiographical impulses. ... [A] strange, but eminently brilliant and enjoyable, book."- Andrew Bellamy (H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews)

Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  11. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  182. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  623. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142Notes  165Bibliography  177Index

“Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” - Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University “In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” - M. Murphy, author of (The Economization of Life) "Taking an impressively expansive, interdisciplinary approach, Chen situates the book within critical ethnic and race studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, but the work also has clear historical, historiographical, and autobiographical impulses. ... [A] strange, but eminently brilliant and enjoyable, book."- Andrew Bellamy (H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews)