Spiritual technology: transition and its prosthetics
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Spiritual technology: transition and its prosthetics - Global Tribe |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Graham St John; University of Queensland; Australia |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Popular Music; Anthropology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | psychedelic trance music; consciousness |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Dance Music; ML3400-3465; Popular Music;ML3469-3541; Ethnology;GN301-674 |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | In its exploration of Goa/psytrance music, Chapter 4 regards this music as an assemblage of technics that have been sampled, remixed and repurposed to the variable transit of the self in reflexive modernity. The assemblages I call spiritechnics are guided by differing modalities of “consciousness”, shaping practices with varying means and ends: progressive and transgressive, nihilistic and gnostic, self-directed and planetary. Using a spectrum of sampled content programmed within psytrance releases and promotions, the chapter demonstrates how its sonic fiction orchestrates the departure from, connection with, and evolution of, consciousness. Whether concerned with the unconscious, outer space, virtual reality or the wilderness, re-mediated liminality is adapted by the psychedelic mystics and media shamans of psytrance to facilitate these conditions of transit. Popular culture, psychoactive (or more accurately “entheogenic”) compounds, and the experience of revelation are the media and the means emixed by the technicians of transition. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Nov-2012 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | ethnographic study |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/20088 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.20088 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Global Tribe |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Goa, contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |