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A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic AestheticsPsychedelic Citizenship and Re-Enchantment: Affective Aesthetics as Political Instantiation

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Psychedelic Citizenship and... [This chapter explicates The Boo Hoo Bible by Art Kleps, then moves on to discuss narrative fiction. Connecting to earlier discussions of play, it covers Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and the influence of literary imagination on psychedelic aesthetics as Tom Wolfe gestured in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests. It then discusses Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, and hyperconscious approaches to life as a style among groups like the merry pranksters. It shifts to a discussion of religion and mysticism, coming back to Aldous Huxley’s work and the idea of psychedelic or “enchanted” citizenship. Connecting to recent philosopher’s calls for new “fictions,” it suggests that attention to psychedelic aesthetics opens a possibility to think in terms of metempsychosis or being-beyond-being-toward-death.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic AestheticsPsychedelic Citizenship and Re-Enchantment: Affective Aesthetics as Political Instantiation

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-15317-5
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169 –213
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10.1007/978-3-030-15318-2_6
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[This chapter explicates The Boo Hoo Bible by Art Kleps, then moves on to discuss narrative fiction. Connecting to earlier discussions of play, it covers Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and the influence of literary imagination on psychedelic aesthetics as Tom Wolfe gestured in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests. It then discusses Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, and hyperconscious approaches to life as a style among groups like the merry pranksters. It shifts to a discussion of religion and mysticism, coming back to Aldous Huxley’s work and the idea of psychedelic or “enchanted” citizenship. Connecting to recent philosopher’s calls for new “fictions,” it suggests that attention to psychedelic aesthetics opens a possibility to think in terms of metempsychosis or being-beyond-being-toward-death.]

Published: Apr 3, 2019

Keywords: Simon Critchley; Faith of the faithless; Nicolas Langlitz; Millbrook; Boo Hoo Bible; Art Kleps; Neo-American Church; Timothy Leary; Drug Enforcement Administration; William Burroughs; Naked Lunch; Re-enchantment; Paul Goodman; Glass Bead Game ( Magister Ludi ); Hermann Hesse; Childhood’s End; Arthur C. Clarke; Tom Wolfe; Thomas Pynchon; Gravity’s Rainbow; Ken Kesey; Sometimes a Great Notion; Psychedelic aesthetics; Jack Kerouac; Julia Kristeva

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