Psychedelics under Catastrophe: Reflections on the October 7 Rave Massacre
The South Atlantic Quarterly April 1, 2025 Arun Saldanha 1 citation
How is pleasure structured by violence and catastrophe? This essay provides reflections on an event profusely mentioned but little understood at the time of writing, the massacre of Israeli ravers in the attack on October 7, 2023, by Palestinian militants. It is important to sketch the countercultural specificities of psychedelic trance music to appreciate how it became singularly popular in...