Psychedelics and Black Liberation – FALL 2024
Week 0
Carl Hart, Drug Use for Grown Ups: Chasing Liberty in a Land of Fear
Week 1
Mark Fisher, Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare – Forthcoming Spring 2023
Week 2
Jacques Derrida, “The Rhetoric of Drugs”
Joy James, Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in Penal Democracy
Week 3
Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy”
Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Week 4
Sean Homer, “Shamanistic Marxism: Freud, Benjamin and the Colonial Unconscious”
Walter Benjamin, On Hashish
Sigmund Freud, Cocaine Papers
Week 5
M.E. O’Brien, “Junkie Communism”
Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era
Week 6
Katherine McKittrick, “Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science”
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Week 7
Jeremy Wells, “Blackness ‘scuzed: Jimi Hendrix’s (In)visible Legacy in Heavy Metal”
Leroi Jones, Black Music
Week 8
Sylvia Wynter, “We Know Where We Are From” – The Politics of Black Culture from Myal to Marley
L.H. Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaeshetics and Black Sexual Culture
Week 9
Kali Holloway, “The Secret Black History of LSD”
Danielle Giffort, Acid Revival: Psychedelics Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy
Week 10
Frank B. Wilderson III, “The Black Liberation Army and the Paradox of Political Engagement”
Mitchell Dean & Daniel Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and The End of Revolution
Mumble Theory 