(Micro-) Psychedelic Experiences: from the 1960s creativity at the workplace to the 21st Century neuro-newspeak
M. Aronov
Ethnologie Française 2019 DOI: 10.3917/ethn.194.0701 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Qualitative study Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | The notion of enhancement through psychedelics emerged in 1960s California and is now being reinterpreted by micro-dosing adepts and psychopharmacologists. |
Abstract
espanolDesde los anos 1990, la reevaluacion de los alucinogenos, o psicodelicos, como categoria de sustancias ha suscitado hipotesis de investigacion sugiriendo la utilidad de “micro dosis” de psicodelicos para mejorar las actividades de la vida cotidiana. Aun que en estudios en management estas sustancias han sido percibidas por unos como una herramienta para el estudio de la “creatividad”, el “microdosing” tambien ha generado criticas. Desde un corpus documental y de entrevistas, este articulo analiza las formas en que la nocion de “mejora”, en relacion con el termino psicodelico, ha surgido en California en la decada de 1960, y su despliegue en las practicas y los discursos actuales en torno al “microdosing”. EnglishSince the 1990s, the reassessment of hallucinogens—or psychedelics—as a class of substance has led to proposals promoting the utility of “micro-doses” of these drugs for an enhanced functioning and well-being in everyday life. While in management research these are said to contribute to the understanding of how “creativity” is “enhanced”, such uses have drawn criticism as well. Relying on a documentary corpus and interviews, this article focuses on development of the idea of “enhancement” as related to psychedelics, in 1960s California, and on how adepts of “micro-dosing” and psycho-pharmacologists grasp this idea today. francaisDepuis les annees 1990, la reevaluation des hallucinogenes, ou psychedeliques, comme categorie de substances a genere des hypotheses de recherche sur l’utilite de « micro-doses » de celles-ci pour l’amelioration d’activites de la vie quotidienne. Si dans la recherche en management ces substances ont ete percues par certains comme un outil pour l’etude de la « creativite », le « microdosage » a aussi suscite la critique. A partir d’un corpus documentaire et d’entretiens, cet article s’interesse aux facons dont la notion « d’amelioration », telle que liee au terme psychedelique, a emerge dans la Californie des annees 1960, et a son deploiement dans les pratiques et discours actuels autour du « microdosage ».
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