Updated CV

An updated copy of my CV can be found here.

CFP for the “The Others of Philosophy”: DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference (I’m Keynoting)

I am delivering the keynote at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference. The theme is “Philosophy on Trial: The Others of Philosophy.” The CFP is below, and submissions are open until January 1 2014. I would LOVE to see some…

On Balance, or Why Privacy Is A Red Herring

A shorter, less academic version of this post appears at Cyborgology. This post follows up on my earlier post about a culture of moderation. Here I want to consider one aspect of this contemporary focus on moderation: the idea of…

A few more thoughts on the “Women in Philosophy” problem

The “why aren’t there more women in philosophy” problem pops up outside feminist philosophy circles with perennial regularity, almost like bulbs in the spring.We’re in the midst of another bloom, mainly fueled by some discussion on US-based blogs and in…

Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP

Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, or MRWaSP, is my term for early 21st-century globalized Western race/gender/sexuality/capitalist hegemony. I put a lower-case “a” in the acronym to both make the acronym something pronounceable to English speakers, and to echo the older acronym…

Doctor Who and Pop Music

With the 50th anniversary fete this weekend, I thought a quick post on Doctor Who and (mainly pop) music was in order.First, the arrangement–and the signature sound–of the original theme song was performed by none other than the amazing Delia…

Phased Out: Resilience, Melancholy, & Feminist “Bad Vibes” (aka my 2013 SPEP talk responding to Ewa Ziarek)

Even though this is specifically targeted as a response to Ewa Ziarek’s fabulous new book Feminist Aesthetics & The Politics of Modernism, this paper will be of interest to those of you who have been following my work on resilience,…

a different kind of buzz: harmony, white femininity, and multi-racial white supremacist patriarchy

[this is a little rough; i may come back and edit it if i have time this weekend. that said, i’d love any thoughts or feedback you might have.] When I first heard Lorde’s single “Royals” on Charlotte radio, all…

Seeing Music For What It Really Isn't

Seeing Music For What It Really Isn’t

or, “‘Reality’ is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes” This is cross-posted from cyborgology. __ I get really nervous when people start making claims about what is and isn’t “real” music. Like Princess Leia in The…

Trolling Is the New Love & Theft

I’m crossposting this week’s post on cyborgology because it speaks directly to ideas I’ve been developing over here on IHF. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” have been two of the most controversial songs/videos in the…