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For Achim, what happened to German rave illustrated Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of "deterritorialisation" and "reterritorialisation". Deterritorialisation is when a culture gets all fluxed up - punk, early rave, Jungle - resulting in a breakthrough into new aesthetic, social and cognitive spaces. Reterritorialisation is the inevitable stabilisation of chaos into a new order: the internal emergence of style codes and orthodoxies, the external co-optation of subcultural energy by the leisure industry. Szepanski has a groovy German word for what rave, once so liberating, turned into: 'Freizeitknast', a 'pleasure-prison'. Regulated experiences, punctual rapture, predictable music: "Boring!" sneers Achim
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Would he go so far as to describe a kind of aesthetic fascism at work in rave culture? "The techniques of mass-mobilisation and crowd-consciousness have similarities to fascism. Fascism was mobilising people for the war-machines, rave is mobilising people for pleasure-machines".