Some really great and provocative work on philosophical pluralism & philosophy’s demographic problem
The XCPhilosophy Collective has had a series of posts on the related problems of “diverse practices” and “diverse practitioners” in philosophy. They posted a wrap-up of the convo so far here. You should really check it out! I especially like…
Toxic: on race, gender, and resilient labor on social media
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. Concepts like “the male gaze” and “controlling images” are Gender Studies 101 material: they’re the basic terms in which many feminists understand the media’s oppression of white women (in the case of the male…
Feminist Theory: Questions for Tiqqun/Weigel & Ahern
Tonight we’re reading Tiqqun’s Young-Girl essay and Weigel & Ahern’s response in TNI. Here are some questions for discussion: Further Questions Is Tiqqun just devaluing as feminine everything that’s bad about neoliberalism? So Tiquun says the YG “is absolutely not…
Keynote Lecture for 2014 DePaul Philosophy Graduate Association Conference
I am absolutely thrilled to be presenting the keynote talk at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, “Philosophy on Trial: Philosophy & Its Others.”My talk is at 4pm this Saturday the 15th in the Levan Center on DePaul’s…
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
[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…
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