Journal article
The Techno-Sublime
Refractory, Vol.1
2002
Abstract
Barbara Bolt argues that the encounter between dance culture and technology as experienced in 'clubbing' is a sublime encounter. However, the techno-sublime encounter is predicated on a very different relation to the sublime, than that developed by Immanuel Kant. In the 'techno-sublime' encounter there is no longer a concern with the re-assertion of 'self' in the face of the sublime event. Rather, there is a collapse in boundaries as 'I' dissolve into the collective techno-experience. In the combination of the beat of bodies, heat, music, vibration, lights and drugs, the techno experience creates an intensification that is oblivious to reason or to the reasonable limits of the organism.
Details
- Title
- The Techno-Sublime
- Authors
- Barbara R Bolt (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Refractory, Vol.1
- Publisher
- University of Melbourne, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archeology
- Date published
- 2002
- ISSN
- 1447-4905
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2002 Refractory. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced here with permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449930502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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