CTM 2013 – Death Of Rave UK w Mark Fisher, Alex Williams, Steve Goodman, Lee Gamble & Lisa Blanning

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• 00:00:02

  Hello, everyone. Welcome to the penultimate day of CTM 13's discourse program. Now we have a special series of talks under the title The Death of Rave, which is part of a kind of sub-program within CTM called The Death of Rave, Rave Undead. So I'm really pleased to have a great selection of panelists here today. Okay…

• 00:10:25

  Reynolds touches on the wider social and political currents only in the last chapters of his book. So, here he talks about a sort of broader examination of the loss of the future on a social and historical level. And as Reynolds recounts it, the first two-thirds of the 20th century saw astounding leaps forward in both…

• 00:20:40

  What does this mean for ideas of the future of acceleration and of culture in particular? So one of the ways that I think we can escape the impasse in Land's machinic thinking of acceleration is to rethink what acceleration is. The CCRU, and in particular Land, have been extremely influential on the next generation…

• 00:32:50

  But also, it did something to my brain. You know, I'm studying, I was writing, and it became the soundtrack to writing as well as dancing. So it's rewiring your brain. You're kind of typing, you become a polyrhythmic typer. Polyrhythmic typist. So it affected your body, it changes the way you move and dance…

• 00:44:27

  Music that I found, I wasn't given to, I dug it out, I found it and then, yeah, decided that this was my sound, this is what I wanted to listen to, this is what I wanted to go to. So it seemed natural to go back to that anyway. But yeah, I don't know, the death thing, I've no idea, I mean really, yeah, I mean it's…

• 00:56:05

  It's seriously fun, but also it has some, there is a kind of a sense that sort of eliminating yourself collectively through drugs and music is an intense and meaningful experience. So I think we haven't, you know, exactly as Steve says, we haven't kids still go out, they still have a good time, and people still take…

• 01:09:19

  It wasn't a problem at all. In fact when it sort of started to leave that kind of music that's when I left too. You don't want a difficult time but there's some vibe in there that needed to be there. It needed to be there in the community in that area of the community. Obviously because it manifests itself in those…

• 01:29:25

  people being scattered and de-territorialized or being concentrated in an urban center is that when you get this concentration um you know you enter the tunnel you shut off the outside and you allow um the process that Mark's talking about to happen which is consistency to occur that hasn't been rushed from…