Beyond Counterculture: Towards a People’s History of Psychedelic Networks
Psychedelic Intersections January 17, 2025 DOI: 10.70423/0001.07 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes that the term "counterculture" is poorly defined for describing psychedelic communities and offers "psychedelicism" as a more precise framework. |
Abstract
This article demonstrates how “counterculture” remains a poorly defined way to talk about rapidly developing milieux, scenes, and networks born out of the religious awakening stimulated by psychedelics in the mid-1960s. It proposes an alternative framework of “psychedelicism” to better understand the nuances and complexity of historical and contemporary psychedelic communities.