Life-world-analytical ethnography aims to investigate the subjective perspective-the life-worlds-of other people. Life-world-analytical ethnography is based on the premise that any world which is not apprehended as a life-world-that is, as the totality of a world that is subjectively experienced-is a fiction. For we do not, in fact, have any knowledge of a world that is not subjectively experienced-of the world per se, as it were. The investigation of one's own life-world is a difficult program in itself, a program that mundane phenomenology, in particular, endeavors to pursue. However, the investigation of the life-worlds of other actors calls for numerous additional precautions and measures. This article discusses the origins and foundations as well as particular challenges of lifeworld-analytical ethnography.Keywords life-world analysis, lived experience, mundane-phenomenology, small social life-worlds, observant participationWith this contribution to a phenomenology-based ethnography, we present an empirical research concept that is strongly oriented toward the description of the experiences that people have. In other words, it is aimed at the

Skimming through current publications about “Techno and Drugs” without looking into the more detailed distinctions between them, one gets the impression that the increase in the use of ecstasy (MDMA) and the growth of the Techno-scene, especially in the 1990s, are highly correlated. In fact, most ecstasy users identify themselves as Techno-fans, and those Techno-fans who consume drugs generally prefer ecstasy. It has also been suggested that the specific active ingredients of all amphetamine derivatives marketed under the catchall term “ecstasy” are pharmacologically psychotropic. But these active ingredients are not the main problem in the ongoing ecstasy boom.

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