Ten Theses on the Politics of Psychedelics
This article liberates discussion of the politics of psychedelics from its present impasse. Across ten theses, it asserts that psychedelics are interruptive deautomating political technologies, which makes them conducive to democratic politics, in the radical sense: rather than consolidating liberal-democratic systems of representative or managed democracy, psychedelic experience tends to open such regimes up to the ferment of radical democracy.
- Authors
Oliver Davis
- Year
- 2026
- Journal Name
- Psychedelics 4 (December 2026)
- Category
- Journal Article
- Full Citation
- Link to Publication
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyche.2026.100025