IASPM-US 2017 Talk: “‘Counting It Out Differently’: Lemonade’s Demonic Calculus”
Here’s the text of my talk for IASPM-US 2017 so that you can follow along Friday afternoon if you’re there, or peek at what I’m doing if you aren’t. The talk uses Katherine McKittrick’s concept of “demonic calculus” as a…
Post-Feminism’s Sexual Contract & Property-In-Person
This is an excerpt from a longer piece, but I thought I’d reproduce this here because it’s an analytic that’s useful beyond the narrow context of that piece. In general, post-feminism is the idea that feminism is obsolete. As Angela…
What kind of “harmony” does big-data style social physics design for?
I’m working on the final chapter of my book The Sonic Episteme; it focuses on the ways pop science accounts of “social physics” and the subfield of physics called string theory appeal to concepts of acoustic resonance. Here’s the beginnings of…
On Poptimism, Race, & Biopolitics in the Nietzsche/Wagner Beef
In my Theories of Sound & Music class we studied the Nietzsche/Wagner beef, and there are two themes I want to mark here so we can return to them later when we talk about poptimism, on the one hand, and…
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