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

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There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique.We tend to associate intoxication with immersion, participation, and proximity, while Jumper/Pants 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 Switch Mat 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?.