I began my inquiry into the "techno-sublime" by keying the term "techno-sublime" into Googe to see if the term had been coined before. Whilst there was no exact match, the first site that opened was http://www.sublime.net.au/chillout.html, 'The Chillout . clubbing is a planetary experience'. I had long been interested in the event of the techno-dance party, that total awesome experience where there is a collapse of individuality and a loss of individual boundaries as "I" become part of the collective techno-experience. It was uncanny to find myself at this site in search of the "techno-sublime" and yet it was precisely this exstasis or loss of identity in the face of the awesomeness of the techno-experience that was central to my understanding …show more content…
Rather, through rational thought, the ego recuperates itself in the face of this threat. As Battersby notes:
The pleasure of the sublime involves fear in the face of the infinite; but it also involves a transcendence of fear. It involves terror and a recognition of that which could overwhelm and destroy the self, but also a simultaneous strengthening of the perceiving "I" by testing its strength against that which could obliterate it. (Battersby 1994:28)
David Nye notes that in testing "his" (and the Kantian sublime is gendered male) strength in the face of this apparent infinity, the individual 'recuperates a sense of superior self-worth because the mind is able to conceive something larger and more powerful than the senses can grasp' (Nye 1994:7). Thus in the Kantian sublime the emphasis on the role of the mind in apprehending the sublime, shifted attention from "nature" to the rational "perception of
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In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the arousal Industry, he recounts the events that occured from his early years of adolesence to the latter years of his adulthood telling the story of his unforgiving and candid life. Set in the late 1970s "Punk" rock era, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry offers a valuable perspective about the role culture takes in our lives, how we interact with it and how it differs from ideology.
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. His poems are not what they seem to be at first glance. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
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The artist I've chosen to discuss in this paper is the band Daft Punk. Daft Punk consists of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo who became friends 1987 in secondary school, and are from Paris, France. The band formed in 1992 under the name “Darlin'” with a third member, Laurent Brancowitz, who later left the group and formed the band Phoenix. Daft Punk was a large part in the growing popularity of the “house” genre of music in France in the late 1990's.
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