Music For Drones: part 3, pickup test

C had a telephone pickup lying around his studio, so we decided it would be interesting to hook it up to the drone. Telephone pickups (like guitar pickups) listen for electronic signals, not sound waves. So, what you’re hearing here…

Updated my articles on PhilPapers

I just updated my PhilPapers profile to include full-text versions of all my recent publications. There’s a widget on the lower right of the blog that takes you to PhilPapers, or you can find my profile page here.

Music for Drones Week 2: getting some sounds on tape

This is crossposted at stardotstudio. This week we decided to record the drones as they flew by a stand mic. We wanted to get a sense of how they sounded, what specific moves (e.g., fast breaking, rotating on the yaw/…

The Financialized Girl

The Financialized Girl

This is from the Girl Scouts website. This is a cross-post from Cyborgology.  In an earlier post, I asked what happens to femininity when the kind of second-shift care work traditionally assigned to women is increasingly a feature of all work, especially conventionally…