Crary draws a somewhat lazy parallel between "patterns of consumption generated by current media and communication products" and similar patterns in oter "expanding global marketplaces--for example, in the ones controlled by major pharmaceutical corporations"
this might not be overly notable, though I did enjoy that he memorably refers to drug users--or "the global patchwork of different drug-using populations"--a group collectively "made up of highly disparate affects, drives, and incapacitations"