Acid Communism is a project beyond the pleasure principle. It is not only a project for the recuperation of the counterculture’s lost potentials but also the expression of a desire for an experimental (rather than prescriptively utopian) le…For Marx, “desire” is so often inseparable from the commodity. It is never without object. On the very first page of Capital, quoting Nicholas Barbon, Marx defines it in a footnote: “Desire implies want; it is the appetite of the mind, and …Barbon, Nicholas. 1696. A Discourse Concerning Coining the New Money Lighter. In Answer to Mr. Locke's Considerations, &c, London.
Deleuze, Gilles. 2006. “Four Propositions on Psychoanalysis” in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts & Interviews 1…
Friedrich Engels
philosopher · 6 mentions across 3 readings
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Engels' *The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State* provides a historical-materialist framework for understanding how gender inequity crystallizes through economic systems and property relations—a foundational text for the seminar's examination of how social structures emerge from material conditions. The readings mobilize Engels alongside Marx to theorize desire, commodification, and the political economy of bodies, suggesting that liberation projects (including countercultural and "acid communist" ones) must grapple with how desire itself becomes entangled with capitalist accumulation rather than existing as some natural or autonomous force.
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How were the deep roots of sex and gender equity and inequity in many societies formed? What are the roles of political economy and private property? How have these traditions been shaped by shifting social, political, religious, and enviro…Byrne, D. (1998). Complexity theory and the social sciences: An introduction. London, England: Routledge.
Chapman, R. (2003). Archaeologies of complexity. London, England: Routledge.
Crumley, C. L. (1979). Three locational models: An epis…
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