Philosophy, Private Property, and Sound
This is a quick post; I’m sure I’ll come back to it later. However, I have some thoughts I want to capture before they’re gone. After reading and teaching Ashon Crawley’s Blackpentecostal Breath, I’ve been thinking a lot about…
Noisy Feminists, Neoliberal Sophrosyne, & Lemonade’s Demonic Calculus–my talk at NYU Musicology 4/27/17
I’m speaking at NYU’s Music Colloquium on Thursday April 27th. Here’s the text of my talk. I’ve put the introduction below. Anne Carson’s “The Gender of Sound” studies the women of classical Greek literature. They are presented as “a…
On Hartmut Rosa’s theory of ‘resonant democracy’ & The Sonic Episteme
Here’s an excerpt from my book/manuscript The Sonic Episteme; it’s in a chapter on acoustic resonance as political ontology and follows a discussion of Ranciere’s Disagreement, Cavarero’s For More Than One Voice, & Fred Evans’s The Multivoiced Body. German…
On musical metaphors in string theory
This is the first draft of part of the last chapter of my current manuscript-in-process, The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & post-identity biopolitics. String theory is a subdiscipline within physics that blends general relativity (which focuses on macrocosmic spacetime) with…
Leaning Into The Red: On Beyonce, Nicki, Missy, & Rihanna’s sonic responses to post-feminism
I’m re-upping this post because I’m giving this talk on Friday 6 January at 9am at the APA Eastern. Hope to see you there, philosophers and Baltimore people! I’m speaking this Friday at Ithaca Music Forum. Here is the text…
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