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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Nomadism, Technique, and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781666937268
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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