The Nearly Forgotten Futures of Acid Communism: Foucault and Antonioni at Zabriskie Point
Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy December 17, 2025 Todd Landon Barnes
With a focus on the 1970s—in particular, narratives recounting Michel Foucault’s 1975 LSD experience at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, as well as Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film Zabriskie Point—this article seeks to recover any politically or aesthetically radical potential that psychedelics might still retain, given neoliberalism’s recent recouperation, containment, legalization,...