Blogging my way through Grosz’s “Chaos, Territory, Art”: part 2, more thoughts on ‘music’ and (algo)rhythm
Signal & Noise Why does a chapter nominally about “vibration, animal, music, sex” begin with a long discussion of philosophy, what it is and what it does? Is this evidence that “music” is really just philosophy’s other, its negative? Are…
Sexual Difference, Indeterminacy, & Open Works: a few thoughts on Grosz
I’m starting work on my third book, which I am tentatively calling “Signal & Noise”. This involves a lot of reading; I am going to try to post short reflections on what I’m reading as I work my way through…
Is neoliberalism’s becoming-woman also a becoming-sound? (and some thoughts on listening, social media, and feminized labor)
This will be cross-posted at Cyborgology later this week. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari argue that “music is traversed by a becoming-woman” (272). By this they mean that Western systems of musical organization evoke and confront the very…
Resilience & Melancholy update
Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism is my forthcoming book with Zer0. I’ve finished writing it, and now I’m working on the formatting and all the other mechanics of preparing it for press. That includes writing back cover matter…
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