Psychick Albion : The fight against reality in post-war Britain.

This book will look at arange of cultural products from the post-war period including children’sliterature, horror films, the folk rock revival, television, fine art, andvideo games.The common thread amongst them is the positing of another world,an alternative reality, distinct from the mundane world of consensus reality. Although this might be dismissed as an escapist retreat from an increasinglycomplex Britain, this book will argue that the world of Psychick Albion is aresistance to the accelerating encroachment of capitalist space and time intoour psychic lives.Pentecost argues that the worldof mundane ‘reality’ can be understood as an ideological projection: ahallucination.When viewed in this way, the psychedelic hallucination ofPsychick Albion can be weaponised as a genuine alternative to the world ofcapitalist realism.The book will take Mark Fisher’s idea of ‘Acid Communism’ asa launchpad to explore new possibilities of folklore, fantasy and urban wyrd. In doing so, new ways of thinking about our place in the emerging Anthropocenewill become apparent.As an always present latent alternative to the neoliberalconsensus, Psychick Albion becomes a vital way to imagine new futures.