To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes
To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes: Yay! I’m so glad you’re here–both because that means you are interested in feminism, but also because you bring lots of philosophical expertise with you. Also, feminist philosophy has a…
A Few More Notes on Resilience
Last night in my graduate feminist theory seminar we talked about resilience discourse. I’ve written about resilience before on this blog, and the concept is a key theme in my forthcoming book with Zer0 Books. Here I want to focus…
New Boots & Contracts
Consider this a rough draft of an equally rough idea, barfing something out in words for later clean-up. I was listening to The Clash’s “All The Young Punks” yesterday at the gym. Its full title is “All The Young Punks…
Updated CV
An updated copy of my CV can be found here.
CFP for the “The Others of Philosophy”: DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference (I’m Keynoting)
I am delivering the keynote at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference. The theme is “Philosophy on Trial: The Others of Philosophy.” The CFP is below, and submissions are open until January 1 2014. I would LOVE to see some…
On Balance, or Why Privacy Is A Red Herring
A shorter, less academic version of this post appears at Cyborgology. This post follows up on my earlier post about a culture of moderation. Here I want to consider one aspect of this contemporary focus on moderation: the idea of…
A few more thoughts on the “Women in Philosophy” problem
The “why aren’t there more women in philosophy” problem pops up outside feminist philosophy circles with perennial regularity, almost like bulbs in the spring.We’re in the midst of another bloom, mainly fueled by some discussion on US-based blogs and in…
Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP
Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, or MRWaSP, is my term for early 21st-century globalized Western race/gender/sexuality/capitalist hegemony. I put a lower-case “a” in the acronym to both make the acronym something pronounceable to English speakers, and to echo the older acronym…
Doctor Who and Pop Music
With the 50th anniversary fete this weekend, I thought a quick post on Doctor Who and (mainly pop) music was in order.First, the arrangement–and the signature sound–of the original theme song was performed by none other than the amazing Delia…
Phased Out: Resilience, Melancholy, & Feminist “Bad Vibes” (aka my 2013 SPEP talk responding to Ewa Ziarek)
Even though this is specifically targeted as a response to Ewa Ziarek’s fabulous new book Feminist Aesthetics & The Politics of Modernism, this paper will be of interest to those of you who have been following my work on resilience,…
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