It seems to me that rave is just this: a local language without definite articles. There
is no such thing as 𝑡ℎ𝑒
rave – if that means a category of material, a genre, an approach, or a set of techniques.
𝑡ℎ𝑒
rave cannot exist. There's only this and this here and this over there and this right here and us saying simple things in simple sentences as if we were learning to speak again, slowly, adventurously, saying the things that would save us if anything could
save us.
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if 𝑡ℎ𝑒
rave doesn't exist, what then? Nothing can save us. Because the rave can't step in for politics. Because:"𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡." Camilla said
this to me, at some Lecken-related event. And yet, here you are. Not in some otherworldly world. Not escaping. Stealing yourself away from life that is stolen from you.
Not hiding. Hiding away what is not yours.
Critical rave is one of the things that will help us to get through the next decade. But rave
is not political. It has no political goals. It is one of the names for our political desire as it names our political desires. Real politics, like real writing, must happen elsewhere. But we will use some of all that energy, some of all that beauty, which
does not go away when we do, which does not leave the party when we are leaving.
Aɴᴅ
leaving the party we must. One of the most impressive things about the critical rave community are the skills and tricks they, we, have developed to curate our departure
from the party. (The only thing that's even more impressive is our skill to trick ourselves into not leaving and getting fucked up again.)
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Text: Samir Sellami
Photo: Souad Herve
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