Slow Death, Sound, & Lean Ontology
Attali argued that both postwar avant-garde art music and economic theory used the “laws of acoustics” to transform chance and indeterminacy into features rather than bugs. Both practices developed ways of positing background patterns or parameters behind foreground noise….
The political motivations for the “is music biological or cultural” question
Nature just published another entry in the “is musical preference biological or cultural?” debate. It’s getting a lot of press attention now. Scholars outside the hard sciences are pretty much (as Nick Seaver put it) “duh” about it. I fall…
On “Reason & Resonance” #1: the Descartes chapter, gender, and race
Up till now I’ve mostly read Veit Erlmann’s Reason & Resonance like Deleuze and Guattari suggested one read A Thousand Plateaus: jump in and read the slice you’re most interested in at the moment. This summer I’m going to try…
The house always wins: financializing racialized precarity
After the 2008 financial crisis, we all know about the subprime mortgage bubble. Lenders gave out tons of subprime mortgages, mostly to blacks and Latinos, and then investors made tons of money by betting against these homeowners’ ability to repay…
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