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 · 6 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Mark Fisher was a British cultural theorist and critic known for diagnosing "capitalist realism"—the pervasive sense that no alternative to neoliberalism is imaginable—and for theorizing "Acid Communism" as a speculative leftist politics drawing on countercultural potentials rather than prescriptive utopianism. In the course readings, Fisher appears as a conceptual innovator whose neologisms help frame how desire, technology, and political imagination intersect, particularly through his unfinished work on experimental rather than determined futures. His critical interventions are cited to trouble the relationship between markets, science fiction, and the infrastructure of contemporary thought.
Mentioned in 3 readings
Planetary computation: platform, stack, model, machine; Charles Stross’ “very slow AIs” to “imperceptible algorithmic value extraction devices”; social, inducement, walled gardens, and yield farms; Trapwire, Predpol, Palantir, and other “pe…12. December 1 Assymetrical Likewar to Autoassymetry Psyop to Mindwar to Likewar; hybrid war, asymmetry, and 5GW; Equation Group v. Shadow Brokers: DANDERSPIRITZ, EWOKFRENZY, WANNACRY; exfiltration doxware; TrapWire/Stratfor leak; Clearview…
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