Dušan I Bjelić: 1 book
Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism
Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin...
