[Dancecult-l] ravers in Ibiza

[Nibelungentreue at aol.com]

Adam & anyone else who may be interested,
don't panic; that particular chapter is actually in English, so nothing in 
principle to stop you using it to flesh out your discussion of Simon Reynolds et 
al. Also, if you google "sonic war machines" you'll be directed to a 
discussion on the Radical Philsophy website of an event which featured Kode9's theory, 
as well as a whole host of other theorists discussing electronic music. 
Although that particular reviewer's comments are not overtly favourable, I think it 
should be borne in mind, as Tobias rightly says, that the research is 
currently in embryonic form, so it is worth monitoring its future development.

Graham's citation on the control of space/tourist economies could, I believe, 
be plugged into some of the speed/violence issues we're touching on here. 
Lancaster University are hosting some interesting research papers along these 
lines, not least of all, "Sea, Sun, Sex and Biopolitics", which frames its 
argument with reference to this opening quotation:

"Four in the morning..bottles smashed onto the pavement but the human swarm 
hears nothing over the music pounding from the bars. The doors of the Nightlife 
disco open and two young men barrel past the bouncers, vomit smeared on their 
bare chests. They embrace, then wrestle, then soil each other's hair. Five 
teenage girls watch and applaud until one is grabbed by a bouncer and carried on 
his shoulders up the steps. One of her friends lunges...the bouncer whirls 
and his captive's knee-high white boots catch the lunger in the face. She 
howls...."

Shortly thereafter the authors launch into their analysis of Ibiza as 
typifying the emergence of a new kind of social space transfigured by global capital, 
a post-oedipal social space where the only prohibition is the "prohibition to 
forbid". Anyone who perseveres with this piece may then feel inclined to read 
the other paper by the same authors, "Enjoy your Fight!"- an evocative 
analysis of the text Fightclub, which, as per Ibiza, featured as its soundtrack an 
elecronica score, (in the latter case, courtesy of the Chemical Brothers). I 
wouldn't discount the wider cultural significance of Fightclub, with its central 
theme of violence, given that it is enormously popular among young people 
today, many of whom are drawn to EDMC. If some parallels could be drawn, to my 
mind, this also prefigures to some extent an analysis of EDMC in terms of 
Maffesoli's famous thesis of "The Time of the Tribes". Anyway, here is the reference 
to the Ibiza piece:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/papers/diken-laustsen-sea-sun-sex-biopoli
tics.pdf

That's all I'll say about it for now though.

Best,

Neil Huthnance   
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