Ketamine King: Tech Bros, AI Delusions, and the Politics of Dissociation

CW: Includes references to drug use and racialized violence
discourse.

King Ketamine:
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/king-ketamine

Acid Horizon welcomes back Taija Mars McDougall to discuss her
latest essay “King Ketamine,” published in Parapraxis Magazine.
Together, we examine how ketamine—favored by Silicon Valley
elites like Elon Musk—has become  the drug of the
techno-fascist sacrament, fueling disassociation and delusions of
divine-like Promethean capitalism. Drawing on personal encounters
and haunting hallucinations, Taija explores how the drug mirrors
and intensifies a chimerical ruling-class subjectivity in which
power is sanctified through suffering and algorithmic detachment.
The conversation charts a chilling terrain: from the political
theology of tech billionaires and the racial substrate of
“techno-optimism” to the convergence of AI, surveillance, and
“libertarian” psychoanalysis.


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