The End of Subjective Universality and the Privatization of Aesthetic Taste
In 2026, any take that uncritically treats “pop” as the low or mass culture term in a high/low or art/craft binary is a red herring designed to divert attention away from the fact that the political ontology that makes that…
I finally figured out what bothers me about affect theory
In The Sonic Episteme I wrote about how feminist new materialism says that it’s recouping philosophy’s unjustly excluded other (matter), but what it actually does is double-down on old hierarchies and exclusions by reframing them in new terms. Because some…
Britpop and reactionary centrism
In 1996 the US passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which deregulated radio ownership and established section 230 (which basically allows social media to exist by making companies not liable for content third-party users post online), the Personal Responsibility and…
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