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Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny

Nomadism, Technique, and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave

Leandros Kyriakopoulos

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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Lexington Books
Pages: 192 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-66693-725-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66693-726-8 • eBook • July 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Substance Abuse, Music / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Music / Genres & Styles / Dance

Leandros Kyriakopoulos is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Athens.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Instead of Introduction: Context, History, Questions

Chapter One: Institutional Accounts of a Spectacular Experience

Chapter Two: Sense and Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny in the Psychedelic Rave

Chapter Three: “Welcome to Paradise”: Constructing the Psytrance Phantasmagoria

Chapter Four: Nomadic Subjects: Performing Festive Identities

Chapter Five: Somatic Enactments of Psychedelic (Bio)sociality

Addition: Marking the Body

Epilogue: In the Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny

Index

References

About the Author

Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny

Nomadism, Technique, and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave

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Hardback
eBook
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  • 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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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 192 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼
    978-1-66693-725-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-66693-726-8 • eBook • July 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Substance Abuse, Music / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Music / Genres & Styles / Dance
Author
Author
  • Leandros Kyriakopoulos is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Athens.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Instead of Introduction: Context, History, Questions

    Chapter One: Institutional Accounts of a Spectacular Experience

    Chapter Two: Sense and Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny in the Psychedelic Rave

    Chapter Three: “Welcome to Paradise”: Constructing the Psytrance Phantasmagoria

    Chapter Four: Nomadic Subjects: Performing Festive Identities

    Chapter Five: Somatic Enactments of Psychedelic (Bio)sociality

    Addition: Marking the Body

    Epilogue: In the Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny

    Index

    References

    About the Author

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