Publications

Many full publications are accessible on Academia.edu and ResearchGate.

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2023

• Edited journal issue. "Event Horizons: Transformational Festivals, Cultures and Movements" co-guest edited issue (with Sarah Pike) of Journal of Festive Studies # 5.

• "Transfestive Horizons: An Introduction." Journal of Festive Studies # 5: 11-40. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2023.5.1.187

• (with Botond Vitos), “Burnerverse: The Borderland, Midburn, and the Global Event Culture of Burning Man,” Journal of Festive Studies # 5: 41-67. ” https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2023.5.1.117.

• Edited journal issue. "Psychedelica and Electronica," Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 15(1) (co-edited with Trace Reddell).

• (with Trace Reddell), "Introduction" to "Psychedelica and Electronica," Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 15(1):, 4-12. https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.01

• "The Voice of the Apocalypse: Terence McKenna as Raving Medium," Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 15(1): 61-91. https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.04

• “Electronic Dance Music:  Trance and Techno-Shamanism.” In Christopher Partridge and Marcus Moberg (eds), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music, 365-372. London: Bloomsbury.  2nd Edition.

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2022

• (with Botond Vitos and François Gauthier),“Burning Man in Europe: Burns, Culture and Transformation.” In Maria Nita & Jeremy Kidwell eds., Festival Cultures: Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 87-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88392-8_5

• 'Sherpagate’: Art, Tourists and Drama at Burning Man. In Maria Nita & Jeremy Kidwell (eds), Festival Cultures: Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 169-193. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88392-8_8

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2021

• (with Botond Vitos) Wurst Storm Rising: The Dadaist Legacy of Burning Man. Journal of Festive Studies, 3.1: 177—199. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2021.3.1.57

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2020

• Ephemeropolis: Burning Man, Transformation and Heterotopia. Journal of Festive Studies, Vol 2: 289-322. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.48

• Dramatic Heterotopia: The Participatory Spectacle of Burning Man. In Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman (eds), Interrupting Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century, 178–194. New York: Routledge.

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2019

• At Home in the Big Empty: Burning Man and the Playa Sublime. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 13 (3): 286–313.   https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.36778

• The Cultural Heroes of Do-ocracy: Burning Man, Catharsis on the Mall and Caps of Liberty. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 15(1).

• Divine Medium: DJs, Nanomedia and the Dance Floor. In The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture, edited by Nicholas Cook, Monique M. Ingalls, David Trippett, 168–169. Cambridge University Press.

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2018

• Civilised Tribalism: Burning Man, Event-Tribes and Maker Culture. Cultural Sociology, 12(1): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517733162

• The Breakthrough Experience: DMT Hyperspace and its Liminal Aesthetics. Anthropology of Consciousness 29(1): 57–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12089

• Gnosis Potency: DMT Breakthroughs and Paragnosis. In Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science: Cultural Perspectives, Beatriz C. Labate and Clancy Cavnar eds, 205–222. Cham: Springer.

• The Pineal Enigma: The Dazzling Life and Times of the “Spirit Gland.” In DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule, David Luke and Rory Spowers eds, 8–37. Inner Traditions.

• The Spirit Molecule, Aeon, 20 March.

• The Big Empty, Aeon, 10 September.

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2017

• (ed) Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Introduction: Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures. In Graham St John, ed., Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures, 1–21. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Charms War: Dance Camps and Sound Cars at Burning Man. In Graham St John, ed., Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures, 219–244. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Aussiewaska: A Cultural History of Changa and Ayahuasca Analogues in Australia. In Beatriz Labate, Clancy Cavnar and Alex Gearin, eds, The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies, 144­–162. London: Routledge.

• Blazing Grace: The Gifted Culture of Burning Man. NANO: New American Notes Online, 11 (July), Special issue “Economies of the Gift in an Age of Austerity” edited by Jennie Stearns and J.P. Craig.

• Electronic Dance Music: Trance and Techno-Shamanism. In Chris Partridge and Marcus Moberg (eds) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music, 278–285. London: Bloomsbury.

• Hyperespace dans le cyberespace : DMT et méta-ritualisation. Drogues, santé et société, edited by Marc Perreault. 16 (2): 76–103.

• “Victor Turner,” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Bryan S. Turner, Kyung-Sup Chang, Cynthia F. Epstein, Peter Kivisto, J. Michael Ryan and William Outhwaite.

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2016

• The DMT Gland: The Pineal, The Spirit Molecule, and Popular Culture. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 7(2): 153–174.

• Spiritechnics: Liminalité et techno-chamanisme dans la psytrance. In Sébastien Baud, ed. Anthropologies du corps en transe, 259–279. Paris: Connaissances et Savoirs.

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2015

• Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT   (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books / Evolver).

• Themed Journal Edition. Weekend Societies: EDM Festivals & Event-Cultures. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture: 7(1)

• Introduction to Weekend Societies: EDM Festivals & Event-Cultures. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture: 7(1): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2015.07.01.00

• Electronic Dance Music Events. In John Lyden and Eric Michael Mazur, eds. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture, 336–355. New York: Routledge.

• Liminal Being: Electronic Dance Music Cultures, Ritualization and the Case of Psytrance. In Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman (eds) The Sage Handbook of Popular Music, 243–260. London: Sage Publications.

• Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalised Politics at the Turn of the Millennium. In George McKay (ed), The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture, 129–148. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• (With Francois Gauthier) Burning Man’s Gift-Driven, Event-Centred Diaspora, Revue du MAUSS (24 January).

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2014

• Goatrance Travellers: Psytrance and its Seasoned Progeny. In Simone Krüger and Ruxandra Trandafoiu (eds), The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism, pp. 160–182. New York: Routledge.

• The Logics of Sacrifice at Visionary Arts Festivals. In Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor and Ian Woodward (eds), The Festivalisation of Culture, 49–68. Aldershot: Ashgate.

• Begoggled in the Theater of Awe: Electronic Dance Music Culture at Burning Man. In Samantha Krukowski, ed., Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man, 144–159. London: Black Dog Publishing.

• Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalized Politics in the Present. In Playgrounds: Reinventing the Square. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Rena Sofia, pp. 248–280. [Reprint]

• “Victor Turner”. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.

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2013 

• Aliens Are Us: CosmicLiminality, Remixticism and Alienation in Psytrance. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 25 (2): 186–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.25.2.186

• The Vibe of the Exiles: Aliens, Afropsychedelia and Psyculture. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5(2): 56–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2013.05.02.04

• Writing the Vibe: Arts of Representation in Electronic Dance Music Culture. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5(1):

• Total Solar Eclipse Festivals, Cosmic Pilgrims and Planetary Culture. In Donna Weston and Andy Bennett (eds) Pop Pagans: Pagans and Popular Music, pp. 126–144. Durham: Acumen.

• Indian Spirit: Amerindians and the Techno-Tribes of Psytrance. In James Mackay and David Stirrup (eds), Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imagination, 1900-Present, pp. 173–195. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Victor Turner. Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, An Encyclopedia. Sage. Vol II, pp. 863–868 (3000 words).

• Communitas. Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, An Encyclopedia. Sage. Vol I, pp. 128–129 (1000 words).

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2012

• Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.

• . The Exodus of Psytrance?Themed Journal Edition. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. 4(1)

• Seasoned Exodus: The Exile Mosaic of Psyculture. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 4(1): 4–37.

• Freak Media: Vibe Tribes, Sampledelic Outlaws and Israeli Psytrance. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 26 (3): 437–447.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.665839

• Altered Together: Dance Festivals and Cultural Life. In Barbara Rose Johnston, ed. Vital Topics Forum, On Happiness, 9–10. American Anthropologist 114(1): 6–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01393.x

• (with Chiara Baldini). Dancing at the Crossroads of Consciousness: Techno-Mysticism, Visionary Arts and Portugal’s Boom Festival. In Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman (eds). Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, pp. 521–552. Leiden: Brill.

• Divine Mothership of Trance: Boom 2010. In Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (eds). Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness: Essays on Liminal States, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind, 24–32. Evolver Editions.

• Experience, Tribalism and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture. In Courtney Bender and Ann Taves (eds), What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, pp. 248–275. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview. In Mark J. Butler (ed) Electronica, Dance and Club Music, pp. 243–268. Surrey: Ashgate. [reprint]

 

2011  

• Spiritual Technologies and Altering Consciousness in Contemporary Counterculture. In Etzel Cardeña and Michael Winkelman (eds) Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Vol I, pp 203–225. Praeger Perspectives.

• The 2012 Movement, Visionary Arts and Psytrance Culture. In Joseph Gelfer (ed), 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse, pp. 123–143. Sheffield & Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing.

• Rave From the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead. In Cory James Rushton and Christopher M. Moreman (eds), Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead, pp. 24–39. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.

• Cosmic Vibe: Total Solar Eclipse Festivals. In Tom Rom and Pascal Querner, Goa: 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance. Nachtschatten Verlag, Solothurn/Switzerland. Book/DVD (Dec 2011).

• DJ Goa Gil: Kalifornian Exile, Dark Yogi and Dreaded Anomaly. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 3(1). 97–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2011.03.01.05

• Party, Love and Profit: The Rhythms of the Love Parade (Interview with Wolfgang Sterneck). Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 2(1).

• Remixtical Experiences and the 'Pink Packet'. Entheogenesis Australis Journal 3 (2011/2012): 87-91.

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2010

• (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. London: Routledge.

• Psytrance: An Introduction. In Graham St John (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, pp. 1–17. New York: Routledge.

• Liminal Culture and Global Movement: The Transitional World of Psytrance. In Graham St John (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, pp. 220–246. New York: Routledge.

• Making a Noise—Making a Difference: Techno-Punk and Terra-ism. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 1(2): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2010.01.02.01

• Sound System Nation: Jamaica. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 1(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2010.01.02.07

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2009

• Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures. London: Equinox Publishing.

• Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 1(1): 35–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.03

• Noon, Black Rock City. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 1(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.09

• [Book review] ‘Subcultures?’ Ken Gelder’s Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice. Routledge, London and New York, 2007. In Cultural Studies Review , 15(1): 217-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v15i1.2066

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2008

• (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. London, New York: Berghahn. 

• Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction. In Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, 1–37. New York: Berghahn.

• Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture, in Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, 149–173. New York: Berghahn.

• Dancing in the Realm. In Rak Razam and Tim Parish (eds), The Journeybook: Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness. Melbourne: Undergrowth Inc, 9-14.

• The Gathering of the Trance Tribes: Surfing the Novelty Wave at Boom. Boom Book. Good Mood Productions (January).

• Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalized Politics in the Present. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest. 7(2): 167–190.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742830802283550

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2006

• Themed Journal Edition. Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion. Journal of Culture and Religion. 7(1).

• Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview. Culture and Religion. 7(1): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01438300600625259

• Reclaiming the Future: Going Feral and Becoming Native at Goolengook. In Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips (eds) Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, pp. 187–196. Aldershot: Ashgate.

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2005

• Outback Vibes: Sound Systems on the Road to Legitimacy. Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, 8(3): 321–336.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790500231020

• Off Road Show: Techno, Protest and Feral Theatre. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(1): 7–22.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1030431052000336261

• Australia. Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum Publications, pp. 133–136 (3000 words).

• Ferality. Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum Publications, pp. 650–652 (1000 words).

• Keepers of Lake Eyre. Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum Publications, pp. 956–957 (750 words).

• Raves. Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum Publications, pp. 1347-1349 (1500 words).

• [book review] Tim Lawrence’s Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979.  Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2003, in Media International Australia 117:160-161.

 

2004    

• (ed). Rave Culture and Religion. London, New York: Routledge.

• Introduction. In Graham St John (ed), Rave Culture and Religion, pp.1–15 London: Routledge.

• The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary. In Graham St John (ed), Rave Culture and Religion, pp. 19–45. London: Routledge.

• Techno Millennium: Dance, Ecology and Future Primitives. In Graham St John (ed), Rave Culture and Religion, pp. 213–235. London: Routledge.

• Counter Tribes, Global Protests and Carnivals of Reclamation. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 16(4): 421–428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1040265042000318644

• Global "Protestival": Reclaiming the Streets and the Future. M/C Reviews ‘Objection or Obstruction: The Culture of Protest in the 21st Century' (November).

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2003    

• Post-Rave Technotribalism and the Carnival of Protest. In Muggleton, D and Weinzierl, R (eds) The Post-Subcultures Reader, pp. 65–82. London: Berg.

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2001    

• Edited collection. FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor. Altona: Common Ground.

• Introduction: Techno Inferno. In Graham St John (ed) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 1-6. Altona: Common Ground.

• Doof! Australian Post Rave Culture. In Graham St John (ed) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 9–36. Altona: Common Ground.

• Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures. In Graham St John (ed) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 109–137.Altona: Common Ground.

• Australian (Alter)natives: Cultural Drama and Indigeneity. Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 45(1): 122–40.

• Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body: Beyond Turner at ConFest. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12(1): 47–66.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2001.tb00062.x

• ‘Heal thy Self - thy Planet’: ConFest, Eco-Spirituality and the Self/Earth Nexus. Australian Religion Studies  Review, 14 (1): 97-112.

• The Battle of the Bands: ConFest Musics and the Politics of Authenticity. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture. 5(2): 69–90.

• Earthdreaming for a Nuclear Free Future. Arena Magazine (2001) 53, pp. 41-44.

• [book review] John Patterson’s People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy, Dunmoore Press, in Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 2000, 5(2):242-44.

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2000

• Ferals: Terra-ism and Radical Ecologism in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies 24(64): 208–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050009387573

• ConFest: Edgecentral and the Feraliens. In A. Dearling and M Hanley (eds). Alternative Australia: Celebrating Cultural Diversity, pp. 83–88. Enabler Publications.

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1999 

• Ferality: A Life of Grime. The UTS Review - Cultural Studies and New Writing, 5(2):101–13.

• The Story of ConFest. Green Connections (1998/99), 21: 24-5.

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1997

• Going Feral: Authentica on the Edge of Australian Culture. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 8(2): 167–189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1997.tb00348.x

 

Other writings

• Cosmic Theshold: Eclipse2012 Festival. Reality Sandwich (12 Oct 2012).

• Dancing in the Cosmic Sweet Spot: Total Solar Eclipse Gatherings. Reality Sandwich (18 June 2012).

• Boom Festival 2010: Divine Mothership of Trance. Reality Sandwich (24 September, 2010).

• Ozora: Field of Dreams. Undergrowth (October 2009).

• Burning Time: Begoggled in the Mega-Vibe @ Burning Man. Undergrowth (November 2007).

• Dionysus Now: The Island of Fire and the Immortal Present. Undergrowth (July 2007).

• Dancing in the Realm: Life, Fusion, Boom Festivals. Undergrowth (September 2006).

• Soulclipse: Chasing the Progression. Undergrowth (April 2006).

• Land of the Long White Sock. In Undergrowth Magazine Issue 2: Terra Poetica (2004).

 

 

• PhD Thesis (1999)

• Alternative Cultural Heterotopia: ConFest as Australia 's Marginal Centre.