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... As brought up in the discussion, following your presentation, In addition to Anna Munster Susan Buck-Morss has written a paper entitled "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered". Don't misunderstand, I don't mean that rave/trance is anything like a politcal rally in the 1930s, but I think Benjamin (and Susan Buck-Morss' article) perhaps offers a framework that can address the dialectics of the phenomenon as you describe it in your talk and paper – understandings of the crowd (the mass), its rythms and ability to relate to reality, the relation between aesthetics narcotics, aesthetics/anaesthetics, and so forth.
