From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication

From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication

There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxication with immersion, participation, and proximity, while critique is usually connected to the distance, separation, and an outsider-perspective. In this article I want to analyze this tension, but I...

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Main Author: Thijs Lijster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Performance Philosophy 2020-02-01
Series:Performance Philosophy
Subjects:
critique, intoxication, benjamin, common sense, acid communism
Online Access:https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/276
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title From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication
title_short From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication
title_full From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication
title_fullStr From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication
title_full_unstemmed From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication
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description There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxication with immersion, participation, and proximity, while critique is usually connected to the distance, separation, and an outsider-perspective. In this article I want to analyze this tension, but I also want to explore the possibilities, with the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin as my guide, of a critical intoxication and/or intoxicated critique. What would be the social, political and aesthetic implications for such juxtaposition for both of these categories?
topic critique, intoxication, benjamin, common sense, acid communism
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