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…
Acoustic Resonance & Neoliberal Biopolitics: On ratio as technology
This is part of the book manuscript that I’m working on this summer. It’s from the part in the intro where I lay out the basic terms of my argument, which is this: Theories of neoliberal political economy, post-identity biopolitics,…
Philosophy and Orality/Diverse Practices & Diverse Practitioners
So it’s kind of surprising (not surprising) to me that this 2013 talk of mine is pertinent two different times this week. It relates to two separate discussions of philosophy, diverse philosophical practices, and diverse philosophy practitioners. I already talked about…
Love & Theft of Wisdom: On the Gentrification of Underrepresented Areas in Philosophy
There’s some debate in the philosophy blogosphere right now about the ‘gentrification’ of underrepresented areas in the field–in particular, Latin American philosophy. Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia’s original post over at PhilPercs articulates the concern that the mainstreamization of Latin American philosophy,…
IASPM-US/CA Talk
Here’s the text of my talk at IASPM this weekend, “Leaning Into The Red: On The Sonic Dimensions of Black Feminist Responses to Post-Feminism.” It’s a 7500 word paper, so I’m only going to give the first half of it….
Simone (2000-2016)
no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. it appeals to the existence of others. When I was home in West Chester one summer after my first or second year of grad school, I had lunch…
My EMP 2016 Talk –> Started From the bottoms Now We Hear: queered voice in the era of post-feminist pop
I’m talking on Saturday morning at this year’s EMP PopCon. If you’d like to follow along IRL or remotely, here’s the full text of my talk. Here are the slides/images that accompany it. I’ve pasted the intro below so you…
These Are Sia’s Breaks: on vocal technique & queering feminine resilience
Sia, famous first as a songwriter and second as a vocalist, never eschews authorial voice. However, her signature as a pop star, the thing that stands out as her ‘brand’ in the way cupcake bras might for Katy…
Is the Post- in post-identity the Post- in post-genre?
I’m giving a talk this Friday, 25 March at Columbia University. Here are the details. Here is a link to the text of the talk. I’ve pasted the intro below so you can get a preview. From “race records” to…
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