Resilience & Melancholy update
Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism is my forthcoming book with Zer0. I’ve finished writing it, and now I’m working on the formatting and all the other mechanics of preparing it for press. That includes writing back cover matter…
Music For Drones: part 3, pickup test
C had a telephone pickup lying around his studio, so we decided it would be interesting to hook it up to the drone. Telephone pickups (like guitar pickups) listen for electronic signals, not sound waves. So, what you’re hearing here…
Updated my articles on PhilPapers
I just updated my PhilPapers profile to include full-text versions of all my recent publications. There’s a widget on the lower right of the blog that takes you to PhilPapers, or you can find my profile page here.
Music for Drones Week 2: getting some sounds on tape
This is crossposted at stardotstudio. This week we decided to record the drones as they flew by a stand mic. We wanted to get a sense of how they sounded, what specific moves (e.g., fast breaking, rotating on the yaw/…
The Financialized Girl
This is from the Girl Scouts website. This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. In an earlier post, I asked what happens to femininity when the kind of second-shift care work traditionally assigned to women is increasingly a feature of all work, especially conventionally…
Music for Drones: Week 1, Learning to Fly
christian.ryan and I, as citation:obsolete, are working on our #musicfordrones project. We received an internal grant from UNCC to purchase four Phantom quadcopter drones, some mics, and other related equipment. This summer we’re beginning the actual work on the project….
That #Selfie Song–how it sounds, and a few thoughts on human capital
The Chainsmokers’ song “Selfie” is the new novelty song that everyone (or, almost everyone) loves to hate. In this Fact Magazine critics roundup, the song is called everything from “a low point…even for EDM,” to the one thing worse than…
Some thoughts on philoSOPHIA 2014
The amazing XCPhilosophy Collective are hosting a series of posts on philoSOPHIA’s 2014 meeting, and I got to kick them off. Find my post here. I talk about Foucault/Into the Death, Beauvoirian Ambiguity, Poptimism and the Feminist Philosophy of Sports,…
“Oh Bondage, Up Yours!”: Resilience as Feminine Ideal and Racializing Technology–my philoSOPHIA 2014 talk
Here is the outline from which I will be speaking tomorrow morning at philoSOPHIA: a feminist society’s meeting at Penn State. I’ve also reproduced it below; the formatting in the gdoc is prettier. Introduction [SLIDE 1] XRay Spex: “O Bondage,…
Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool
Here is a PDF of my forthcoming article in Culture, Theory, & Critique. Here is the article’s introduction: According to theorists like Jacques Rancie`re and Mark Fisher, that it is impossibleto even imagine alternatives to the status quo is one of…
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