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Intended Use Of Public Space: Essay

Youth is linked to a sense of plasticity of self. Many of the drugs consumed at raves, like Ecstasy, also encourage the user to engage in demonstrative behavior to total strangers. And even people not on drugs like to use the transiency of raves, where most people will never be seen again, to engage in wild sexual behavior as well as dancing. Raves are cheap, cheaper than clubs, and do not have the institutional status of a bouncer and owner passing judgment on who enters and exits. There is no landlord of the space, other than the organizers. There is no permanent sense...

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To police the boundaries of entry and exit lie in the hands of the organizers when they give invitations. Even if the inviters have no formal social status, no wealth, and no prestige in conventional society, the invites are coveted. Their prestige is conveyed by creating the fictional world of the rave. Only those 'in the know' of a secret community can enter their special place. Thus a transgressive location is created where rules of the outside world are deliberately inverted and mocked.

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