Feminist Theory Supplemental Questions–Black Feminism & Neoliberalism

These are supplemental questions regarding Stephen Dillon’s “Possessed By Death.” Members of my feminist theory seminar ought to discuss them below in the comments. Dillon argues that “antiblack technologies…live on in the operation of the market” (114). How do antiblack…

Bro-gemony & dubstep

Bro-gemony & dubstep

[This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. It’s also a very rough, thinking-as-I-write piece. It may jump around a lot. If I’ve left something underexplained, let me know!] Yesterday, Mike D’Errico posted a wonderfully provocative essay about brostep, the Military Entertainment…

From “London Calling”‘s cold-war nuclear apocalypse to “NWO”‘s new world order

I’m teaching a music & society class this semester, and it’s focused on punk, hip hop, and disco. I’ve put together a set of songs (loosely within those genres and their progeny) that focus on the last decades of the cold…

Agenda & Discussion Questions for Nancy Fraser’s Fortunes of Feminism

Feminist Theory students (and others), here is the gdoc with tonight’s agenda.Here is a link to an article I will probably mention in class (about the “social justice outrage machine”).

Anti-Social Practice Against Communicative Capitalism?

Political philosophers often use terms like “having a voice” or “legibility” to describe an individual’s or group’s relationship to power and to hegemonic institutions. But these terms, “voice” and “legibility,” they’re aesthetic terms used to describe political phenomena. Why, in…

To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes

To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes: Yay! I’m so glad you’re here–both because that means you are interested in feminism, but also because you bring lots of philosophical expertise with you. Also, feminist philosophy has a…

A Few More Notes on Resilience

Last night in my graduate feminist theory seminar we talked about resilience discourse. I’ve written about resilience before on this blog, and the concept is a key theme in my forthcoming book with Zer0 Books. Here I want to focus…

it’s her factory: new site for Robin M. James

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New Boots & Contracts

Consider this a rough draft of an equally rough idea, barfing something out in words for later clean-up. I was listening to The Clash’s “All The Young Punks” yesterday at the gym. Its full title is “All The Young Punks…