Futurism Restated #75: Trance Is Where You Find It

Marching bands, moshing horses, and the ecstasy of Menorca’s fiestas populares

Festes de Sant Llorenç, Alaior, 2024 (photograph by Philip Sherburne)

This weekend, I found myself packed in a teeming throng beneath the pummeling sun, listening to a single piece of music being looped over and over for hours on end while bodies whirled and spun and crushed against each other, slicked with more sweat than I thought possible for bodies t…