Writing on Raving
$52.33
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2025
Summary
Writing on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the night until the morning.
New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavors of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that is queer in a different way to house music centered gay nightlife. Wark, Mak and Beery want to document and annotate …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781682196281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1682196283 |
| Author: | McKenzie Wark, Geoffrey Mak, Zoë Beery |
| Publisher: | OR Books |
| Imprint: | OR Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 308g |
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Critics Review
“Candid and critical, intimate and revealing, Writing on Raving explores dance floor craving and transformation, autonomy and inspiration, with moves sleek and slippery.”
—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art
“Anyone who’s ever tried to paint rave as pure hedonism, escape, or utopia, needs to confront this collection of personal rave encounters. Writing on Raving isn’t a history lesson or a thesis, it documents the phenomenology of raving as it exists now.”
—Eris Drew, High Priestess of the Motherbeat
“Intricacies of the rave that only those who have put in the witching hours know”
—Michelle Lhooq, Independent journalist at Rave New World
“Is it possible to have a crush on a book? If so, I have a crush on Writing on Raving…”
—Texte Zur Kunst
McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is a writer and scholar based in New York City. She is the author, among other things, of Raving (2023) and Life Story (2024).
Geoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys: A Personal History (2024).
Zoë Beery is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, and a nightlife harm reduction organizer at parties and festivals in the U.S. and Europe.
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