Acid Communism
Matt Colquhoun
Like so many of his neologisms, Mark Fisher’s ‘Acid Communism’ encapsulates a crisis of disambiguation, hurling a provocation into our midst. The phrase – which was to be the title of his next book, now unfini…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…
Mark Fisher
theorist · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Mark Fisher was a British cultural theorist known for theorizing the intersection of late capitalism, desire, and science fiction through concepts like "Capitalist Realism" and "Acid Communism." In the course readings, Fisher appears as a key figure for thinking about how speculative and experimental leftist politics might recover suppressed potentials from counterculture, particularly through his provocative articulation of Acid Communism as a project that moves beyond conventional utopian prescriptions. His work bridges cybernetic systems thinking and radical political imagination, allowing scholars like Matt Colquhoun to interrogate how desire, markets, and science fiction interweave as infrastructure for both capitalist and emancipatory futures.
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