We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of "The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" - "The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields", 73 (2/2024).

 

The resurgence of attention to the ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics of the psychedelic in diverse philosophical disciplines and creative practices is clearly a search for saturated new processes, expanded consciousness, and reality-shifting from the personal scale to the social. The return of the psychedelic is a search for new concepts, models, and processes. Here we take aesthetic analysis beyond the reception of static representations as after-images so as to examine the displacement of psychedelic sense from ritualism and forms of sensing. Certainly, the new psychedelic aesthetic is informed of altered states of consciousness or even the pharmacological valences of spirit. We see the opportunity to explore this resurgence from metaphysics to media-philosophy to cognitive studies. In identifying this nascent growth of the suprasensory, the attention to alien worlds and altered states in the Posthuman era, even the optics and kinaesthesia of the prior psychedelic era is today often re-discovered or transformed by these hallucinatory visions, scintillating extensions of sensory perception, the rapid amplification of stimuli, all contributing to the extreme imagery of counter-cultural revolution now diffusing into other practices.