Jeremy Gilbert is an essayist, specialist in cultural and political theory and lecturer at the University of London. He is also a DJ. On the basis of this famously provocative quotation from Nietzsche, he tells us how matter can be mobile and creative. Linking oriental wisdom and western science, the ‘god that dances’ can be a good vantage point for looking at our times, these times of ‘great celebration’ everywhere, every hour and every minute, with their multiplicities and complexities.