NY’s Dance Tax, Art/Entertainment Hierarchies, and Women’s Bodies
New York State’s proposal to exempt erotic dancing from the tax exemption on dance performance is all about policing women’s work, women’s bodies, and class/race-based norms about the “appropriateness” and “significance” of female nudity. This NewYork Times editorial gets it…
Taylor Swift, Wominimizing, and the Opposite of (White) Mansplaining
Taylor Swift’s single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” has been all over Charlotte radio for quite a while now. Every time I hear it, though, I wonder about why she chose to go up an octave in the…
Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen
–>Here‘s a link to the Storify with all the sounds. Ideas This project is a sound- and social-media-based reperformance of Martha Rosler’s 1975 video “The Semiotics of the Kitchen.” Rosler’s work is one of the foundational texts in what…
Make It Rain
I thought of this while trying to figure out some activities for my Philosophy of Music class to do. Rest assured, we’re still definitely doing this in class this summer. I just realized the activity is part of a larger…
XContinental Philosophy Collective/Manifesto
The members of the XCPhilosophy Collective asked me to link to their manifesto/blog, and because I think it is amazing, awesome, and, well, right, I am more than happy to do so. You can find the whole thing here. Here’s…
From Bay to Brostep: Neoliberalism from post-cinematic affect to EDM
Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect addresses the way the shift between classically liberal and neoliberal systems of social/artistic organization plays out in film and 4D visual media (And, I’m working with the version printed in Film-Philosophy, because that’s what I taught…
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