Raving
Duke University Press · Paperback · March 14, 2023
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world?
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- Who it’s for
- A contemplative encounter with techno, queer and trans life, and the art of dancing amid collapse.
- Themes
- Queer and trans rave culture, Techno and sonic possibility, Raving amid social collapse
- Genres
- Transgender Studies, Dance Music, Critical Theory
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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.
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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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A contemplative encounter with techno, queer and trans life, and the art of dancing amid collapse.
Come here for
- Thinking about techno as both sound and a way of making time
- An invitation into queer and trans rave culture, rendered on the page
Expect
- Prose shaped by fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems
- Raving considered as an art of life amid a collapsing world
Where it sits
| Dance Music | 52% |
|---|---|
| Transgender Studies | 49% |
| Critical Theory | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Transgender Studies
- Authors
- McKenzie Wark
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- March 14, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Queer and trans rave culture · Techno and sonic possibility · Raving amid social collapse
- Reading lane
- Transgender Studies