Culture Coursing through the veins of the modern world and the modern subject alike, coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form. Getty Images // Yulia Reznikov To the well-known political, economic, and cultural revolutions that inaugurated capitalist modernity, we ought to add a fourth: a pharmacological revolution, one that began innocently enough with a variety of foreign substances — coffee, tea, chocolate — and culminated in a multi-billion dollar regulatory regime responsible for adapting subjects to their alienating conditions of existence. Forget “the opium of the people”:...…Culture Coursing through the veins of the modern world and the modern subject alike, coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form. Getty Images // Yulia Reznikov To the well-known political, economic, and cultural revolutions that inaugurated capitalist modernity, we ought to add a fourth: a pharmacological revolution, one that began innocently enough with a variety of foreign substances — coffee, tea, chocolate — and culminated in a multi-billion dollar regulatory regime responsible for adapting subjects to their alienating conditions of existence. Forget “the opium of the people”:...WW…