I have so far only rarely attempted to combine two of my main research topics: that of club culture with that of ecology. In the text Wasting our selves for the environment I try to do exactly that. This text was written last summer on invitation for a Berlin based zine on rave culture which still isn't published. However, a radio version in which I read the text for Entkunstung's new streaming platform /100 has been aired today and you can listen to it if you follow this link.
"Rave
culture can operate as one
among many experimental
fields
for developing new
and badly needed forms of community-building and sympoiesis on this
dying world. To overcome the
self-centered, patriarchal
culture of the anthropos, we have to waste our
selves that are
inflicted by its norms, jurisdictions and moral codes : we have
to develop new queer forms of relating, of being together, of
desiring, even of dying and
destroying : of wasting.
Amidst the soundworlds of mighty subwoofers and PA towers, we can
relate to the power of our machines and include them into our
community. A first step to
become an ecologically aware
society is not to
dream about
pristine Nature
(the anthropos was good at that all along), but to start
to see and respect the waste we produce to make the toxic
environments we are all (human and non-human) inhabiting in the
Anthropocene.
In wasted raving,
we can achieve
the ecstasy of developing
a sensual relationship to this
planetary state of collapse
and transition. Aside
our ego-centered,
ecologically catastrophic selves we
can join the waste we created and become
more resilient with it, in a thousand and one new communal ecstatic
experiences."
I will make sure to get the text version published soon as well...
UPDATE (12/5/20): you can now find the text online at Skug and at NON!
UPDATE (12/5/20): you can now find the text online at Skug and at NON!
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