Technomad - Global Raving Countercultures - Graham St John
The Technoccult, Psytrance, and the Millennium
Technomad - Global Raving Countercultures - Graham St John
Graham St John [+]
Griffith University
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Graham St John is the author of several books including Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (2012), Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (2009) and the edited collections The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (2010), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (2008), Rave Culture and Religion (2004) and FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor (2001). He is Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University and is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
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Chapter 5, “The Technoccult, Psytrance, and the Millennium,” documents the elements of a techno-spiritual movement concentrated within psychedelic trance. Evincing a post sixties cybernetic self/globe nexus, and via a compendium of salvific models, utopian dreams, poetic tracts, and visionary art appearing throughout the 1990s and into the present, trance culture is implicated in a revitalization/millenarian movement responsive to accelerating ecological and humanitarian calamity. Exploring dance music organizations reacting to anti-dance legislation and ordinance, and engaging in direct action mobilizations for diverse issues beyond the world of EDMC.