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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2023
- Book Title
- Raving (Practices)
- ISBN
- 9781478019381
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478019387
ISBN-13
9781478019381
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3057272145
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Publication Name
Raving
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Sociology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
Practices Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-045869
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
In some ways, Raving is Wark's aesthetic boiled down to its essence: a short primer on nightlife and sex that's explained in concepts and theory, and told in a slightly fictionalized series of bursts. It moves from dancefloor to dancefloor, deftly avoiding the classroom and academy. Raving is very much a book that only Wark could have written. I'm glad she did., Wark is the professor of the rave, reimagining the philosophical framework for understanding raving as a means of temporary freedom. With her quirky encyclopedia of made-up vocabulary and cheeky anecdotes from her experiences on the dance floor, Raving is at once theoretical and personal, sweet and nihilistic., Wark's entry into Duke University Press's Practices series, which spotlights the activities that make us human, invites us into the underground queer and trans rave scene of New York City. A bombastic collision of sound and movement, raving is, to Wark, the ideal activity for 'this era of diminishing futures.' An avid raver herself, she blends academic analysis with her own first-hand accounts, all relayed with sensual, staccato prose., From the way it's structured alone, you can tell Wark poured her soul into this work. Her writing is phantasmagoric, vivid, and sharp. . . . Something I appreciate about Wark is her effort to hold herself accountable and criticize the culture she's participating in. . . . Wark opened my eyes to a brand new world, and I'm sure she can open yours too., "What emerges in Raving . . . is a mode of writing that is deliberate but impressionistic, systematic but dissociative, theoretical but personal. . . . Like a DJ reigning over a club, Wark maintains a sense of order throughout her book while also remaining open to chance and spontaneity, her "set" containing as many twists, turns, and patterns as that of a master selector. Though she is in many ways driven by a critical impulse, she utilizes a playful, autofictional style, one that allows her to foreground sensorial experience and act as a contemporary Virgil guiding readers through the nine beautiful circles of rave hell.", Raving is a short book that is exceptionally self-aware. Wark succinctly narrates what to expect, makes apparent what frameworks she is thinking with, and offers keywords to ground every chapter. Summarizing it felt like it would crush the loose and giddy writing, and parsing it out chapter by chapter (each nicely encapsulating critical social themes of temporality, relation, desire, and assemblage) would eviscerate the synergies between them. It is a vibrant model for a different kind of a critical and philosophical study of performance communities, simultaneously theoretical and fleshy., Thank god for this book, I love it so. Wark, a professor at the New School in New York City, documents her return to the rave scene after a cool couple decades away, and shows how raving, as she practices it, is love, healing, rebellion, community care, queer and trans joy, and also just a gorgeous good time., Wark's new book, Raving , is both a chronicle and a critique of her experience--a queer, trans, cripped, middle-aged one--articulated over the course of six essays, which put her friends and intellectual influences in conversation on the dance floor. To read it as a raver is to feel understood. To read it as anyone else is to get a glimpse of a world, enclosed and artificial, that, after the course of a loud, damp night, can leave its marks on everything outside., McKenzie Wark is one of today's finest critics on the subject of bodies, sex, gender, and, as of now, the venue that brings them all together: the rave. . . . Few are better than Wark at capturing how it feels to be in a body with so much intelligence and humor. Here, she argues for raving as a vital trans aesthetic, a way to dance -- literally -- over the crumbling foundations of capitalism., Part autofiction, part ethnography, Raving mirrors the complex and collective aspects of rave experiences. Like a practiced deejay, Wark blends genres to take us on a larger journey. Some critics who shared their thoughts with Wark when she was dancing and researching appear momentarily and nudge us gently toward something new., Wark paints a vivid series of vignettes attempting to build a shared language around raving as a technological and social practice--and trying to make sense of the role it plays in the late-capitalist hellscape we now find ourselves in., A well-tooled topic on which only a writer as sharp as Wark could induce me to pick up another book. . . . Wark is a master of brevity and precision, and Raving is no exception; her easy prose avoids the self-indulgent nostalgia that often afflicts writing on this subject matter., Wark's aptly-named Raving takes readers on a journey through New York's thriving, underground queer rave scene--exploring how techno is an artform particularly suited for apocalyptic-feeling times., The book's charm is in the autofiction, where the reader gets to inhabit Wark's sense of liberation. It's an unusually hopeful depiction of late midlife as a phase of discovery.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.109747
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 1. Rave as Practice 2. Xeno-euphoria 3. Ketamine Femmunism 4. Enlustment 5. Resonant Abstraction 6. Excessive Machine Notes on the Images Glossary of Concepts Notes Bibliography
Synopsis
McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving queer rave scene, showing how raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. 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., McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving queer rave scene, showing how raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? ......, 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.
LC Classification Number
HM646.W34 2023
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- v***3 (118)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem came as described and the price was good. Could have been packed better, as the item came damaged due to the shippers not handling the box with care. Just a small dent in the corner of a box set for book series. Not the biggest deal. Bubble wrap would have prevented this.
- s***e (46)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book, "The Unbreakable Brain," is better than "as described". It looks like a brand new, unused book in excellent condition, which makes it a super value for the cost. It was shipped in a protective package with free shipping, yet another super value! I am incredibly pleased with this seller, and they even sent me a coupon to buy four and get two books free. That's a fantastic gift and quite generous! Thank you for being an excellent seller!The Unbreakable Brain: Shield Your Brain From Cognitive Decline...For Life! (#127331039687)
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