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Mass phantasmagoric rave festivals are usually viewed as ‘heterotopic’ performances that facilitate ‘liminal experiences'. In this article I propose to investigate the excesses of chemical consumption and bodily expenditure within metaphors that support the rave technoaesthetics. Hence, we ought to confront the vexed question of what it means to be inscribed with images of different perceptual realities.
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In our technomediated world, sensory augmentation, bioinformation management, production of affects and manipulation of the senses are increasingly integrated to creative industries and consumption cultures. The paper situates these questions in the carnivalesque party culture of the psychedelic rave
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This page is a summary of: Performing euphoric cosmopolitanism: The aesthetics of life and public space in psytrance phantasmagoria, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, April 2019, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jgmc.5.1.69_1.
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