Club Goin Up On A Tuesday, or, no 48 Hours for 48 thrills
“And when I’m working on the weekend I’ll look back and think how we had the club goin up on a Tuesday” ILOVEMAKONNEN’s song “Tuesday” is about going out dancing and drinking on a Tuesday night because “Working graveyard, shifts…
Notes On Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus: or why some posthumanisms are better than others
[This is another one of my thinking-out-loud posts in which I work through a text, thinking as I write. So, undercooked, imprecise, too much bloat, etc etc you’ve been warned…] “Habeas viscus” is Alexander Weheliye’s term for the queerly racialized…
UVA Music Colloquium Talk November 2014
This Friday November 21 at 3:30pm in Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia, I’ll be giving a talk in their music colloquium series. It’s an expanded (and to be honest much more clear) version of my AMS talk from…
Music & the Ambivalent Politics of Feminist New Materialism–AMS MPSG 2014
Here’s the text of my extremely short talk at the 2014 AMS Music & Philosophy Study Group Session. Here is the longer chapter on which this talk draws. Music & The Ambivalent Politics of Feminist New Materialism Perhaps unwittingly,…
Some remarks and questions about philosophy & social media for SPEP 2014
This is the outline from which I will be speaking at the Advocacy Committee session on Philosophy & Social Media at SPEP 2014. I’m happy to talk about more practical things like how I incorporate social media into my…
Vibrant Data
So, I think I will post this to Cyborgology later, but I would appreciate some feedback before I do…it feels a little too stuck in my current manuscript (or maybe *I* am just too stuck in my current manuscript). Is…
Audio Recording of “Post Feminist Pop Music” App State U Women’s Studies Distinguished Speaker Series
On 10/8/14 I gave a talk “Post Feminist Pop Music” at App State University. Here’s the audio recording of the talk. I made it with my earbud mic and my phone.
Post-Feminist Pop: My talk at App State 10/8.
Here’s the outline from which I will be speaking at App State on 10/8/14. Please feel free to follow along. Post-Feminist Pop Abstract: Pop stars Lily Allen, Beyonce, Meghan Trainor, & Taylor Swift have all released work that depicts…
I’m Keynoting the Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference on Work & Play: Economies of Music
You can find the CFP here; the deadline is 12/5/14.
Race & Emergent “Musical” Processes: on Grosz, Reich, & Gopinath
I first published this post on 10/3/14. I have made significant edits to the “Reich” section, so even if you already read the original version, this new version is worth a look. This is another one of those Robin Thinks…
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