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title: On Raving
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Welcoming to the Crossdressing Diogenes essay series "On Raving", comprised of several essays each exploring contemporary music philosophy through the field of rave culture, popular culture and electronic music. 

These academic essays cover a lot of ground within contemporary music philosophy, and approach the study of music from the perspective of critical theory, particularly in regard to Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari.

It has always been part of Crossdressing Diogenes’ plan to explore contemporary music philosophy through rave culture as a lens, but it was often difficult to find a way of exploring a topic in enough depth within the context of a local fanzine. The format and approach to the original Crossdressing Diogenes fanzine simply didn’t afford it the opportunity to be as critical as intended. Yet, as Crossdressing Diogenes evolved, there became space on the platform to properly explore all of the philosophy that drives our creative production and so we formatted a lot of research into a series of essays.

We teamed up with a previous contributor in the CDCY network, Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou, to deliver some really beautiful a5 prints, which are available via the label’s Bandcamp, but in order to promote democratic and open-access circulation of content, we are happy to publish the essays on this sandpoints website, completely free to read, with all the references available to read completely free via Memory of the World.