As a Midwestern raver in the 90s that was regularly in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis, I love this little history and philosophy piece.
I can't quite explain the feeling of the midwestern rave scene in the 90s, but it was very racially diverse, utopian, punk, looking somehow back and forward in time at the same time enmeshed in psychedelics and psychedelia but somehow also part of both machines and cultures far older than machines. A super important part of my history.
Cyberia by Rushkoff comes closest to capturing parts of it from an anthropology perspective I think.
Someday ill make it out to even furthur. Don't forget Intellephunk, future classic and system parties and everything in between :) The mpls scene is like the classier version of Detroit.
I can't quite explain the feeling of the midwestern rave scene in the 90s, but it was very racially diverse, utopian, punk, looking somehow back and forward in time at the same time enmeshed in psychedelics and psychedelia but somehow also part of both machines and cultures far older than machines. A super important part of my history.
Cyberia by Rushkoff comes closest to capturing parts of it from an anthropology perspective I think.