The spectre that is Acid Communism *is* the prospect of the convergence of class consciousness, socialist-feminist consciousness-raising & psychedelic consciousness, the fusion of new social movements with a communist project (Acid House=Sonic Sampling) x.com/suddiraval/sta…

The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, means that capitalism is by its very nature opposed to any notion of sustainability.

Deleuze talks of 'Oedipus in the colonies' - the westernized subject wandering the globe, projecting its own neuroses onto the rest of the planet, their unwitting backdrop. The only travels worth making are intensive journeys - not voyages of the self, but voyages out of the self

Capitalist realism is a kind of anti-mythical myth: in claiming to have deflated all previous myths that societies were based on, whether the divine right of kings or the Marxist concept of historical materialism, it presents its own myth -of the free individual exercising choice

The crucial discovery of Kant & Freud is the Screen - the most important transcendental thought. The screen is both a way of keeping Things out AND the impact surface on which they register... It is the only surface on which Things can register... (Mark Rothko, Black on Gray:)

This void -the void capitalist creative destruction continually gestures towards but continually covers over- is the revolutionary rupture. This is the time of the Event, the time of trauma, where ontology is suspended - and what will henceforth count as reality is up for grabs.

Marx’s point was that the proletariat is only *virtually* a revolutionary class, its power lies in its *potential* to transform itself into a Collective Subject; the actual proletariat, segregated into labour-consumer Oedi-pods, isn't an irritant to Kapital, but its meat & drink.

Jameson's "Cognitive Mapping" essay is prophetic in identifying problems that we seem to be no closer to solving. These dilemmas aren’t only practical, but are cognitive and transcendental, i.e. they involve some of the basic ways in which experience and thought are structured.

A secret sadness subsists beneath the 21st century's hedonism – a grey world lurking underneath all the high-res digital gloss. The melancholia arises partly from the impasses of digital hedonism itself, but it is also a consequence of  the failure of the 21st century to arrive.

The forbidding monism of Freud's “Beyond The Pleasure Principle” argued that all life is merely a route to death. The conjecture implied by Freud’s positing of Thanatos is that nothing is alive: life is a region of death.