{"title":"Geoffrey Mak","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Mak’s works offer insightful explorations of human character and the natural world, blending elements of \u003cem\u003ebiography and memoir\u003c\/em\u003e with vivid narrative. His writing captures complex personalities and thought-provoking themes, inviting readers into intimate reflections and compelling stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom tales of intriguing individuals in \u003cstrong\u003eMean Boys\u003c\/strong\u003e to profound observations in \u003cstrong\u003eWriting on Raving\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mak’s books are crafted to engage those curious about both personal journey and the broader rhythms of life and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mean-boys-by-geoffrey-mak-9781635577945","title":"Mean Boys","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions.\"—NPR Books We Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book is a rare comfort, a companion . . . Makes you say: \u003ci\u003eyes, that is exactly how it is\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Torrey Peters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, \u003ci\u003eMean Boys\u003c\/i\u003e investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844611100908,"sku":"9781635577945","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8941153482770.jpg?v=1758847819"},{"product_id":"writing-on-raving-by-zo-beery-9781682196281","title":"Writing on Raving","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting on Raving\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the night until the morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavours of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that is queer in a different way to house music-centred gay nightlife. Wark, Mak, and Beery want to document, annotate, celebrate, and also critique, this world in the making. \u003cem\u003eWriting on Raving\u003c\/em\u003e centres the New York scene but isn't limited to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement, through chemistry, into other places, other times, other encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis seeking gives us hours, years, on the dance floor to think about why we rave, to locate these reasons in our bodies and the space around us. But the rave is not the place to articulate them. It is too loud; our friends are too distracted, or too high. At the afters, tired and drained and covered in schmutz, we think some more. We look around at our raver friends and wonder: How did we get here? What happened to us? What is this tentacular, thrashing, swelling thing that we all made together? That thing that is now slumped and aching and coming down now into our fragmentary, singular lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween all of us, there are many answers to such questions. Wark, Mak, and Beery have gathered their favourite ones to share in this first-ever anthology of writing on raving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting on Raving\u003c\/em\u003e is a night of readings and performances about nightlife, dancing, and techno, about why we love these things, but also how that love is complicated. It brings together a diverse range of writers whose dispatches from dance floors, bedrooms, and their own histories hold a mirror to a community whose cultural preservation is still emergent. The series was founded in 2021 by Geoffrey Mak, Zoe Beery, and McKenzie Wark and has included events in Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384218665196,"sku":"9781682196281","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25751873482786.jpg?v=1773403792"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/geoffrey-mak.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}