Acid Rider. Idea „komunizmu kwasowego” Marka Fishera a doświadczenie zewnętrzności
Acid Rider. Mark Fisher’s Idea of “Acid Communism” and Experience of Outerness

Summary/Abstract: Acid Communism remains an intriguing but regrettably unfinished intro-ductory sketch to the Mark Fisher’s unwritten historical reconstruction of thoseradical political projects which grew up out of the psychedelic culture. This com-pelling idea is a consequence of Fisher’s prior theoretical endeavours. The articleattempts to embed his idea of “acid communism” in a broader context, focusing onFisher’s reflection on psychedelic experience, defined as a form of contact with theOutside. I argue that there is a striking convergence between the conception of “acidcommunism” and matters discussed by Fisher in his last book, The Weird and theEerie, where he analyzed potentially transformative shock of an encounter withradical Otherness. For that reason I will address briefly two musical and culturalphenomena which came into being after the psychedelic era and use them as exem-plifications of the “weird” and “eerie” modes of experience, unfulfilled promises ofpost-capitalist future, which did not find political representation and sank to thelevel of unrealized and “haunted” future of modernism. In the concluding part ofmy article I would show how the idea of “acid communism” is tied to the questionregarding the so called post-capitalist desire and to the Fisher’s idiosyncratic versionof futurist-accelerationism.

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