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A Year in Reading: McKenzie Wark

I tend to read around writing projects, so in 2023 it was a lot of books connected one way or another to raving, transsexuality, and autofiction.

Raving

Diedrich Diedrichson, Aesthetics of Pop Music

Useful book on defining the boundaries of pop music, so that one can think of contemporary music as in some ways now something else.

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta, Together, Somehow: Music, Affect and Intimacy on the Dancefloor

On the dancefloor as shared space and the complexities thereof. Of course it’s from Duke, who set the pace in humanities academic publishing.

Kemi Adeyemi,

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