Writing on Raving

New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavors of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that is queer in a different way to house music-centered gay nightlife. Wark, Mak, and Beery want to document and annotate and celebrate, but also critique, this world in the making. Writing on Raving centers the New York scene, but isn’t limited to it.

This is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement, through chemistry, into other places, other times, other encounters.

Contributors: hannah baer, Zoë Beery, Destiny Brundidge, Harry Burke, Ev Delafose, Zoey Greenwald, Isabelia Herrera, Kumi James, Zora Jade Khiry, Geoffrey Mak, madison moore, MORENXXX, Afsana Mousavi, Brittany Newell, MX Oops, E. R. Pulgar, Slant Rhyme, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Anne Lesley Selcer, Journey Streams, Linn Tonstad, cranberry thunderfunk, McKenzie Wark, Frankie Wiener, Simon Wu, Chris Zaldua.

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Selected by McKenzie Wark for MUTEK Forum 2025.