From 8db6058e03efc26db4bd4912b64dfffd41d85f71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeffrey Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:23:02 +0000 Subject: Published: /library/anders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en #25078 * 2023-08-01T16:44:09 Full book text -- eversincedarwin * 2024-09-17T01:22:56 #DELETED DELETED -- jeffrey --- ...ders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en.muse | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'a/am') diff --git a/a/am/anders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en.muse b/a/am/anders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en.muse index 281a787..d99fef9 100644 --- a/a/am/anders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en.muse +++ b/a/am/anders-maybeck-cannabis-communism-the-politics-of-consciousness-en.muse @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #lang en #pubdate 2023-08-01T16:42:30 #teaser What is this utopian motif “Cannabis Communism”? Does the Actionist International actually exist? Who is this New Man called the Funk Punk? What is avant-punk? What is peace punk? And what is the characteristic difference between the Funk Punk, and the Solar Punk, the Bio Punk, the Cyberpunk, etc.? And what are the implications of the development of a politics of consciousness? The Funk Punk is a fellow traveler. Upon insistence he too will admit that he is not just a Hippie, but also a Yippie, that he dreams of a Cannabis Communism. He too speaks about the experience of ego-death, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity. He too speaks of being a survivor of psychiatric hegemony. He too speaks of Trotsky and the Spanish Civil War. He too speaks about the Black Lives Matter protests, street barricades, pepper balls and rubber bullets, and graffiti. Avant-punks, funk punks, peace punks. “How can we make a class act like a work of art?” Perhaps it is rather a return to the avant-garde, rather than the vanguard. The condition of the impossibility of the avant-garde is its very possibility - the possibility of a revolution of everyday life. A specter is haunting the counterculture - the specter of Cannabis Communism. Every revolution must resurrect the ghosts of all past failed revolutions. Just as there is no such thing as Situationism, there is no such thing as Actionism. Actionism is not a political philosophy, nor a metaphysics. It is an ethico-aesthetics - a politics of consciousness. Actionism is the ethico- aesthetics of equality and dehierarchization. But as Hardt and Negri proclaim, “We are not anarchists, but communists”. If the aim of Actionism as an ethico-aesthetics is in the spirit of a personal mythology, then music is resistance, poetry is resistance. And there exists a political unconscious. But what ethics? And what aesthetics? If art, music, philosophy, literature, and cinema are all forms of resistance, then the inspiration for artistic and musical territorialities are material, which returns us to the Marxist dialectic. The “Marxist problematic” directly deals with a “politics of consciousness” and in Marx’s ‘1844 Manuscripts’ he provides an outline for a basic phenomenology of consciousness. Then the experimental aesthetics of Ever Since Darwin aims to converge on three forms of musical resistance: (1) avant-punk, (2) funk punk, and (3) peace punk. For Marx, self-consciousness refers to the truth of self-certainty, the relativity of consciousness in terms of its independence or dependence on social structures, and the certainty of truth and reason. Avant-punk represents the impossibility of society as such, the impossibility of the contradiction of class antagonism, what Marx calls the “Self-alienated Spirit” as the false consciousness imposed by the hegemony of the capitalist bourgeoisie. Funk punk represents the nomadic utopianism of the jam band scene, such that at the shows, on Shakedown Street, and at the campgrounds, diverse, transitory, and autonomous communities are created, the specter of Cannabis Communism. Peace punk represents the ethics of Cannabis Communism, the return of 1960s counterculture and Marxism like a ghost from the past. Marx divides the Geist or the species-essence into the “True Spirit” which deals with ethicality, the “Spirit certain of itself” which deals with morality. +#DELETED DELETED -- cgit v1.2.3