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My SPEP 2015 Paper: Noisy Feminists, Neoliberal Sophrosyne, & Post-Identity Politics

October 7, 2015 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

It’s time for SPEP this year, and that means it’s time for me to post the text of my paper (that’s link to a gdoc). My session is Thursday afternoon, and I’ll be doing the typical Robin thing where I take a…

Personal un-branding and the financialization of whiteness: or, let’s actually LISTEN to Taylor Swift as she shakes it off

February 5, 2015 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

With the rise of fashion trends like K-Hole’s normcore style and the Gap’s watered-down “Dress Normal” campaign, it seems like “uncool” has itself become a way for elites to opt-out of the imperative to build “cool” human capital, a “cool”…

Listening & Compression As Metaphors For Algorithmically Curated News Feeds

September 10, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

This is a revised version of a post I originally published on 9/10/14. Thanks for all the feedback! I’m still not finished with this argument, so if you have further ideas, I’d love to talk. In her post on Twitter’s…

More on Vibrant Matter: on noise, biopolitics, new paradoxes of whiteness, & why Beauvoiran Freedom is better than Bennettian Vitality

September 3, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

This is yet another installment of Robin blogs her way through the initial research for her new book project. So, all the usual caveats: initial thoughts, raw and unrefined, barf-it-out-in-writing, needs lots of feedback and revision, etc etc. I realize…

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