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  • 标题:Vision and Viscosity in Goa’s Psychedelic Trance Scene Arun Saldanha
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  • 作者:Arun Saldanha Saldanha
  • 期刊名称:ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
  • 印刷版ISSN:1492-9732
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 卷号:4
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:172-193
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
  • 摘要:This article tries to conceive what difference vision makes in organising different bodies in the rave tourism scene of Goa in southern India. Drawing on participant observations, the differentiation of bodies is conceived through the concept of ‘viscosity’. With some help of Deleuze and Guattari, viscosity will allow me to discuss the non-subjective, self-organising but dynamic orderings in space and time of brown and white, male and female, rich and poor. Human bodies are not billiard balls, however. I also investigate the negotiations and ethics involved in the practical dealings with otherness. In contrast to much of the reception of Deleuze and Guattari in Anglophone geography, therefore, the concept of viscosity stresses the materialist understanding of social aggregation that they advocate, not simply their insistence on open-endedness and flux. Three sites within Goa’s rave scene will be explored, each highlighting an aspect of its visual economy. Firstly, the popular bars show how architecture contributes to the pigeonholing of bodies; secondly, the beach shows that bodies actively perform rituals of touristic encounter; lastly, at the mystical moment of sunrise at the raves, the profoundly ethical complications of this particular theater of globalisation and counterculture become painfully apparent.
  • 关键词:rave tourism;viscosity;orderings in space and time;practical dealing;Other;Deleuze;Guattari;visual economy;globalization;counter culture;psychedelic;Trance
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