padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
pursuing the societal change angle and continuing on earlier from when I was talking about the fundamental contradictions of modern industrialized society
(granted this risks sinking into a "politics culture economy technology" morass but let's just be cognizant)
taking the avant-garde - meaning the tradition, not just literal avant-garde art - as an attempt to grapple with those contradictions
and the psychedelic tradition as a human technique - for a long time, the main/only technique (shamanism, oracles, mysteries) - for resolving the tension of unknowable
to what extent have current conditions, on the one hand made those implicit contradictions (broadly - nothing really matters) explicit, and on the other hand eradicated the drive to pursue the unknowable?
the latter especially seems how you can arrive at a "psychedelia" made purely of empty signifiers
I only lightly familiar with accelerationism but it feels relevant here, especially as far as making contradictions overt
(granted this risks sinking into a "politics culture economy technology" morass but let's just be cognizant)
taking the avant-garde - meaning the tradition, not just literal avant-garde art - as an attempt to grapple with those contradictions
and the psychedelic tradition as a human technique - for a long time, the main/only technique (shamanism, oracles, mysteries) - for resolving the tension of unknowable
to what extent have current conditions, on the one hand made those implicit contradictions (broadly - nothing really matters) explicit, and on the other hand eradicated the drive to pursue the unknowable?
the latter especially seems how you can arrive at a "psychedelia" made purely of empty signifiers
I only lightly familiar with accelerationism but it feels relevant here, especially as far as making contradictions overt