![]() ![]() The word “rave” to describe a certain style of partying associated with electronic music came into general use in England in the late eighties, after Detroit techno and Chicago house d.j.s began crossing the Atlantic to perform and inspired their British and Continental imitators. ![]() The scene and the sound globalized rapidly, but as an American subculture early electronic dance music was characterized by a science-fictional Futurism pursued through experimental sound, social mixing, free-form radio, pride in Blackness and queerness, altered states of consciousness, style, discernment, and technological innovation. Techno was invented by a group of Black artists from Detroit in the early nineteen-eighties. Wark defines ravers as people “who seek out k-time, who need ravespace, enlustment, and/or xeno-euphoria.” Photograph by McKenzie Wark ![]()
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