Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny: Nomadism, Technique and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave examines the psychedelic rave music and culture with a focus on the multiday phantasmagoric events organized in mountains, deserts, beaches, and other exotic destinations. Using mobile and multi-sited ethnography, the author follows the routes of a diverse group of Greek EDM and party enthusiasts across the festival map of psychedelic-trance gatherings, including Hungary, Morocco, and Greece, with the aim of investigating the revelatory experience of the chemical psychedelic raving. By situating the rave experience within the phantasmagoria of the festival – a dreamworld par excellence of the alien and the uncanny – the work reformulates questions of ‘liminality’, ‘spirituality’, ‘community’ and ‘identity’ while initiating a discussion about the limits of cosmopolitanism and aesthetics as they are reorganized in the techno-political conditions of the 21st century. In an intense and at times demanding theoretical ‘journey’, the author reframes questions of taste, consumption, altered experience, and lifestyle through the lens of technology or technoaesthetics, speculating on an impending techno-social world of augmented senses and artificial impressions, thus posing questions to the reader about the mediation of social and public events, and the reification of ‘utopian’ paradises in the form of contemporary dreamworlds.
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This book examines psychedelic rave music and culture with an emphasis on the multiday phantasmagoric festivals.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsInstead of Introduction: Context, History, QuestionsChapter One: Institutional Accounts of a Spectacular ExperienceChapter Two: Sense and Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny in the Psychedelic RaveChapter Three: “Welcome to Paradise”: Constructing the Psytrance PhantasmagoriaChapter Four: Nomadic Subjects: Performing Festive IdentitiesChapter Five: Somatic Enactments of Psychedelic (Bio)socialityAddition: Marking the BodyEpilogue: In the Phantasmagoria of the UncannyIndexReferencesAbout the Author
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ISBN
9781666937251
Publisert
2024-07-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Vekt
435 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
192
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Biographical note
Leandros Kyriakopoulos is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Athens.