Rihanna’s Unapologetic “Shadow” Feminism, pt. 1

“…mistaking anti-social surrealism for social realism” (Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun). People keep accusing Rihanna of this, that, and the other, when really she’s doing us such a favor that the least we could do is maybe buy…

Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 2

Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 2 This post is about the comments and discussion about my paper “I’ve Lost Control: Negative Affect, Feminism, and Race.” You can find links to the paper and the media I discuss in it here….

More on Ke$ha

In case you missed it, Simon Reynolds wrote a great article about Ke$ha’s new album over in Sunday’s NYTimes, and it quotes yrs truly on a few points. Simon and I had a good conversation about Ke$ha’s work, especially as…

Taking MIDIjunkies Into The Death, v 2.0

This is the revision of a previous post, which was a draft of some material I was working on for an article. I’ve finished a more polished draft (note: not a final draft, or a finalized draft, or my final…

A Few Unfinished Thoughts On Usher’s “Numb”

I was originally going to include this as part of an article I’m working for the premier issue of a really awesome Australian journal called Creature. And by really awesome, I mean it’s going to include stuff by Nina Power…

Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 1

Such a good conference—many great panels, and I even liked Rochester…the brutalism, the grittiness, the downtown-Cincinnati-circa-1985 (ie pre-gentrification) feel. (Maybe I was the only person who was disappointed SPEP conflicted with MusicCon (AMS/SMT)?) I want to take some time to…

My SPEP 2012 Paper

My SPEP 2012 Paper

Today at 4 I’m giving a talk at SPEP. It’s titled “I’ve Lost Control: Negative Affect, Feminism, and Race.” Kathryn Gines from PSU has some great questions and commentary, too. Here‘s a link to a copy of the paper. Here…