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The Yale Review | Aria Aber: "What the Club Taught Me"

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Aria Aber left the Berlin techno scene over a decade ago. In this essay, she traces what nightlife gave her—community, politics, embodied knowledge—and…

The Yale Review | Aria Aber: "What the Club Taught Me" Essays Night Knowledge What I learned at the club Aria Aber Whitney Wei, Berghain (August 2018). Courtesy the artist The party is dead , I said to a friend during a midnight walk in Paris last summer. Part of what I meant was obvious: our nights of hard drugs and loud techno and cheap drinks and no smartphones will never return. Walking past the shuttered storefronts and café tables glinting with candles and wineglasses, we reminisced about the underground clubs we’d attended: she in Ramallah, I in Berlin. We spoke about obscure basement r

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