Yesterday, numerous people tweeted me this picture: Combining the language of “vibes” with the pseudoscientific idea that 528Hz is a sound frequency with physical and psychological healing powers, the sentence on this chocolate bar speaks to two things I’ve written…
When Gawker editor-in-chief Leah Finnegan put “vibe” on her publication’s list of banned words in October 2021, it was clear the term stopped being cool and started to sound basic. That move made me wonder when exactly “vibes” became the…
I watched the new Matrix movie last night and it completely changed how I felt about the entire franchise: I used to think it was somewhere between boring and annoying, but the new film reframes the originals in a way that highlights…
Is a vibe the same thing as a style? One scholar thinks so. In his 2017 article “A Theory of Vibe,” Peli Grietzer argues that the machine learning technology known as autoencoding produces “vibe” as an object of knowledge (8),…
I’m working on the part of my “Good Vibes Only” book where I distinguish what I’m calling “a biopolitics of frequency” – the kind of biopolitics Foucault talks about in the 70s – from the form of biopolitical governance performed…
I’m excited to be giving a talk at the University of Hartford’s Hartt Conservatory this Wednesday November 17, 2021 at 12:30 Eastern. It will be simulcast on Zoom, and anyone can get the zoom info by emailing Karen Cook, whose…
I tried out a new type of assignment this fall for the midterm in my existentialism class, and it worked so well I wanted to share both the assignment itself and some of the smart, sophisticated work that my students…
I am honored that The Sonic Episteme was chosen for an author-meets-critics session at this year’s SPEP. Here are my comments, which situate the book/its argument, responds to what I’ve gotten from the respondents so far (it’s spicy! come for…
This week I’m giving one of the keynotes at the Information Overload: Music Studies in the Age of Abundance conference. It’s virtual, and registration is free. Here is the full text of my talk. This is the first in-depth writing…
Some of y’all know that I am writing a book for UNC Press titled “The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X and the fight for true independence.” I finished the full first draft of the book the other day, and…
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