« The Social History of LSD When Albert Hofmann created LSD-25 during experimentation in his laboratory, he had no idea what was to become of it, or what kind of ...» Document abstract
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SummaryWhen Albert Hofmann created LSD 25 during experimentation in his laboratory, he had no idea what was to become of it, or what kind of an impact it would have. "Dr. Humphry Osmond invented the term 'psychodelic', which was later amended to 'psychedelic to get rid of the nuthouse connotation of 'psycho'." (Wolfe 39). This term encompasses a whole generation, a cultural revolution that took place during the 60's. Since its creation, LSD, among other psychedelics, has had a great impact on the American culture.
Table of Contents- Albert Hofmann was the chemist who created LSD 25 (lysergic acid diethylamide) in his laboratory in Sandoz Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Basil, Switzerland in 1938.
- Dr. Werner Stoll, the son of Sandoz president Arthur Stoll and a colleague of Albert Hofmann's, was the first person to investigate the psychological properties of LSD
- The government, especially the CIA, became deeply involve in research and testing of psychedelic drugs
- The CIA tested acid on unwitting American citizens, volunteers, and themselves. Results were inconsistent.
- Leary was given a 10 year jail sentence in 1970 for possession of less than a half ounce of marijuana (Brown "Mavericks...").
- Kesey's place in La Honda became a center for the emerging counterculture. People dropped in whenever they felt like it.
- LSD has been found by many to cause profound changes in the mental state.
- He compared the brain to a reducing valve something that closes the Doors of Perception and lets in only the information that is need.
- We must not forget visual art, for that was also very affected by the discovery of LSD.
- The whole psychedelic scene calmed down after the sixties, but never quite stopped.
The Many Faces of Michel Foucault: An Analysis of the Evolution of his Conception of Identity Formation in the Modern World Through his Life and Works
« praised Iranian revolutionaries for introducing themselves into history. and as a principle of social change is experiment both sexually and with LSD and other ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThroughout the course of his career as a historian, author, philosopher, and artist, Michel Foucault often shifted directions in his work, reinventing himself in the process and offering little explanation for his decisions to do so. Shortly after the publication of Madness and Civilization in 1961, he commanded, “Do not ask me who I am, and do no tell me to remain the same.” Foucault’s approach to his life and work, which he often referred to as an art form and an abstraction, consequently made any endeavor to provide a conclusive analysis of his life and career inherently antithetical to both his methodology and to the breadth of his subject matter. With that contradiction in mind, scholars have nevertheless remained devoted to investigating patterns, variations, and trends in both his work and approach. Thus, a slightly fragmented and openly speculative analysis of Foucault’s work has since become the most appropriate and effective way to study the multifaceted and inherently paradoxical nature of Michel Foucault’s work.
« exposing manufactured truths is explored in LSD, as Auslander phase contains the seeds of social change and to the << grand narratives >> of history by being ...» Document abstract
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Summary« The genuinely postmodern work forces us to recognise that reality is something other than our formulations of it, and that those formulations are therefore constructs » (Jean-François Lyotard). Investigate and interrogate the urge in performance theatre to radically restructure audience perception and understanding of theatre/life. Focus your response through the analysis of at least two different practitioners or performance forms studied and work seen.
Postmodernism denies the idea of a true and unique reality. It questions it by using irony instead of metaphysics. It plays with the idea that there exists another reality, as Allan Kaprow (in Kirby ; 1965 : 67) explained in a letter sent to selected New Yorkers for the production of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959), ‘In this different art, the artist takes off from life’. Thus, it forces us to question our sense of the world and reality and in placing the audience in this altered and parallel state, tries to offer new ways of seeing theatre and life.
The work of The Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Shunt and Happenings challenge accepted intelligence and knowledge and modify our perception of reality by investigating other realities. Avant-garde performance theatre also exposes our constructed models of reality and theatre and in doing so, changes the traditional model of audience understanding and asks the questions, what is theatre? What is life? What is real? Does real exist?
Postmodernism denies the idea of a true and unique reality. It questions it by using irony instead of metaphysics. It plays with the idea that there exists another reality, as Allan Kaprow (in Kirby ; 1965 : 67) explained in a letter sent to selected New Yorkers for the production of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959), ‘In this different art, the artist takes off from life’. Thus, it forces us to question our sense of the world and reality and in placing the audience in this altered and parallel state, tries to offer new ways of seeing theatre and life.
The work of The Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Shunt and Happenings challenge accepted intelligence and knowledge and modify our perception of reality by investigating other realities. Avant-garde performance theatre also exposes our constructed models of reality and theatre and in doing so, changes the traditional model of audience understanding and asks the questions, what is theatre? What is life? What is real? Does real exist?
Table of Contents- The images shown in Wilson's work
- The stories told by the Wooster Group
- What we experience in the Shunt vaults
- The events of the Happenings
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