Ray D CastleRay Castle is a writer, musician and filmmaker whose work hasalways lived at the edges of culture-in the spaces where consensusreality becomes unstable and something more interesting takes its place.Across five decades he has inhabited those edges asart curator, journalist, DJ, producer and novelist-following the signal wherever it led. In his twenties he ran an art gallery and punk music venue. In his thirties he was one of a handful of original DJs at Goa's beach parties in the late eighties, going on to organise events in Japan, Europe and Australia. The culture spreading person to person, tape to tape, body to body on a dancefloor, before algorithms existed to optimise it.His debut novel Moon Juice Stomper-an acclaimed chronicle ofGoa's rave underground in the 1980s and 90s-captured the last era inwhich humanity chose its own altered states. Tribal-like techno trance dancers on a beach, or in a jungle, somatically moving together in the dark until sunrise ascension that felt, briefly, like transcendence. Castle was there. He noticed things most people missed.Discombobular is the novel that five decades at the edges of culturemade inevitable-a reckoning with the altered state that arrived uninvited, delivered through the devices in our pockets, optimised by algorithms we didn't build and can't see, reshaping the feeling self before the thinking self has time to object. Read More Read Less