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Raving

By McKenzie Wark

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1478016760, 9781478016762
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5744913 bytes)
Series
Practices
Pages
136\145
Time added
2023-03-02 20:08:47

Description

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and a technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. Extending the rave’s sensations, situations, fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems onto the page, Wark invokes a trans practice of raving as a timely aesthetic for dancing in the ruins of this collapsing capital.

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