Music for Drones: Week 1, Learning to Fly

christian.ryan and I, as citation:obsolete, are working on our #musicfordrones project. We received an internal grant from UNCC to purchase four Phantom quadcopter drones, some mics, and other related equipment. This summer we’re beginning the actual work on the project….

That #Selfie Song–how it sounds, and a few thoughts on human capital

The Chainsmokers’ song “Selfie” is the new novelty song that everyone (or, almost everyone) loves to hate. In this Fact Magazine critics roundup, the song is called everything from “a low point…even for EDM,” to the one thing worse than…

Some thoughts on philoSOPHIA 2014

The amazing XCPhilosophy Collective are hosting a series of posts on philoSOPHIA’s 2014 meeting, and I got to kick them off. Find my post here. I talk about Foucault/Into the Death, Beauvoirian Ambiguity, Poptimism and the Feminist Philosophy of Sports,…

“Oh Bondage, Up Yours!”: Resilience as Feminine Ideal and Racializing Technology–my philoSOPHIA 2014 talk

Here is the outline from which I will be speaking tomorrow morning at philoSOPHIA: a feminist society’s meeting at Penn State. I’ve also reproduced it below; the formatting in the gdoc is prettier. Introduction [SLIDE 1] XRay Spex: “O Bondage,…

Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool

Here is a PDF of my forthcoming article in Culture, Theory, & Critique. Here is the article’s introduction:   According to theorists like Jacques Rancie`re and Mark Fisher, that it is impossibleto even imagine alternatives to the status quo is one of…