Looking from today’s perspective at the “beautiful and distant” 1960s, it is fair to say that in the political dimension of the public sphere, counterculture had little effect – its rebellion did not manage to shake or transform the established institutional order. Finally, those things that formed the specificity of counterculture as a movement of radical opposition to the socio-cultural mainstream of the 1970s have now passed into the mass culture discourse, and the rebellion itself has been channeled and absorbed by the structures of corporate capitalism. So what is left for us of the counterculture? Does it still have any – even symbolic – potential invigorating impulse, a still-productive source? The authors of the texts that make up the seventh issue of State of Affairs try to answer these and other questions about the heritage of the counterculture. The volume is supplemented by reviews, including of Marta Bucholc’s book Samotność długodystansowca.