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…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…
Herbert Marcuse
philosopher · 4 mentions across 3 readings
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Marcuse theorized how repression structures both individual psychology and social order, arguing in *Eros and Civilization* that some suppression of desire is necessary for civilization but that advanced capitalism manufactures false needs and surplus repression. The course readings invoke him to historicize the tension between liberation and constraint—particularly in thinking about whether experimental leftist politics (like "Acid Communism") can move beyond the pleasure principle without simply reproducing the repressive logic of earlier systems. His work appears as a ghost haunting debates over whether cybernetic systems of control represent a new form of that manufactured consent or genuinely new possibilities for collective organization.
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