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Praktyka Teoretyczna
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2021
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vol. 40
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issue 2
37-57
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Acid Communism remains an intriguing but regrettably unfinished introductory sketch to the Mark Fisher’s unwritten historical reconstruction of those radical political projects which grew up out of the psychedelic culture. This compelling idea is a consequence of Fisher’s prior theoretical endeavours. The article attempts to embed his idea of “acid communism” in a broader context, focusing on Fisher’s reflection on psychedelic experience, defined as a form of contact with the Outside. I argue that there is a striking convergence between the conception of “acid communism” and matters discussed by Fisher in his last book, The Weird and the Eerie, where he analyzed potentially transformative shock of an encounter with radical Otherness. For that reason I will address briefly two musical and cultural phenomena which came into being after the psychedelic era and use them as exemplifications of the “weird” and “eerie” modes of experience, unfulfilled promises of post-capitalist future, which did not find political representation and sank to the level of unrealized and “haunted” future of modernism. In the concluding part of my article I would show how the idea of “acid communism” is tied to the question regarding the so called post-capitalist desire and to the Fisher’s idiosyncratic version of futurist-accelerationism.
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Acid communism pozostaje intrygującym wstępem Marka Fishera do planowanej przezeń historycznej rekonstrukcji radykalnych projektów politycznych wyrosłych na gruncie kultury psychodelicznej. Idea ta nie narodziła się w próżni, lecz stanowi konsekwencję jego poszukiwań teoretycznych. Artykuł próbuje osadzić koncepcję „komunizmu kwasowego” w szerszym kontekście, skupiając się na refleksji poświęconej doświadczeniu psychodelicznemu jako kontakcie z Zewnętrzem. Twierdzę, że istnieje zbieżność między koncepcją komunizmu kwasowego a zagadnieniami poruszanym przez Fishera w książce The Weird And The Eerie, gdzie analizuje potencjalnie transformujący szok zetknięcia z tym, co radykalnie Inne. Omówię przy tym krótko dwa fenomeny muzyczno-kulturowe, które zaistniały już po epoce psychodelii lat sześćdziesiątych. Posłużą one za egzemplifikacje trybów weird oraz eerie, obietnic przyszłości pokapitalistycznej, które nie znalazły politycznej reprezentacji i osunęły się na poziom widma niezrealizowanej przyszłości modernizmu. W końcowej części artykułu spróbuje pokazać jak zagadnienie komunizmu kwasowego wiąże się z kwestią pragnienia postkapitalistycznego oraz z Fisherowską wersją futuro-akceleracjonizmu.
Praktyka Teoretyczna
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2021
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vol. 40
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issue 2
95-122
EN
The article examines selected phenomena of the so-called krautrock, i.e. West German rock music of the late 1960s and the 1970s. The analysis is based on Mark Fisher's concept of acid communism and the related issue of collective subjectivity. The author distinguishes two opposing tendencies in the music discussed, the first one being the fascination with the collective that goes back to the student protests of 1967–1968, and the second one being the (re)appreciation of individual perspective, which manifested itself e.g. in an increased interest in spirituality and a certain kind of social criticism performed from a distanced position. Focusing on the relationship between the individual and the group, the article analyzes a number of songs and albums that have received little or no attention from researchers up to now.
Praktyka Teoretyczna
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2021
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vol. 40
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issue 2
123-176
EN
Mark Fisher wrote „the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to develop this thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnesses that could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism could look like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon of „psychedelic renaissance”. This repoliticization could constitute the first step towards acid communism – a step that would enable a comprehensive formulation of the project, the imagining of both acid communism itself as well as the road towards it. Even though psychedelics could provide an impulse for the change of the dominant psychiatric paradigm and the reorganization of mental health services, the process of the interception of these substances by the alienating and commodificating orders of psychiatry and capitalism can already be observed, so that both of the intertwined and mutually supporting orders can in fact be strengthened. From this perspective the institution of psychiatry becomes a key element preserving the status quo, which makes the imagining of the end of capitalism impossible. Politicization of mental health, that could question capitalist realism, needs to be connected with the deconstruction of the ideology of psychiatry.
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