The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plain: On Sound & The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy
Here’s an excerpt from a rough draft of a paper I’m working up for the American Philosophies Forum at Emory in April. The theme of the meeting is “The Ineffable,” so I’m writing on Vladimir Jankelevitch‘s and Carolyn Abbate‘s work…
Neoliberal Madness
There’s an idiomatic expression, at least in American English, that goes: “Insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results.” I’ve noticed this idiom pop up in a few Top 40 pop songs. First, there’s Olly Murs’s “Troublemaker,”…
updated copy of my cv
In case you were wondering, here is a copy of my most recently updated CV. Thanks to christian.ryan for designing the template.
I’m Teaching Philosophy of Music This Summer
Syllabus coming soon. My summer 2013 course in Philosophy of Music is open to both undergrads and grad students from UNCC & elsewhere. Registration opens in a month!Students from outside UNCC: if you can locate yourself in Charlotte for 5 weeks…
Re-Viewing Neoliberalism–Full text of my CAA 2013 paper
I’m presenting a talk next Wednesday afternoon at the College Art Association meeting in NYC. The title is “Re-Viewing Neoliberalism.” I’ll be talking through the paper (because this is a talk), which you can find in full-on prose form here. I…
Check out my tumblr (reminder)
Just a note to remind everyone that I’ve started posting shorter-form, less formalized thoughts, ideas, links, quotes, etc., over at my new tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com.Here is a link to a post collecting some of my thoughts on a few things music…
Don’t you know that magnificence is…truly reserved for the upper class?
xpost from my tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com (See especially 5:00) “Why don’t you get bored, go back to school And don’t ask for any of this magnificence…” There’s this idea that students need to be trained for specific careers, and that liberal…
“Britney, bitch” and 4D sonic/affective transmission
OR: superpanoptic data profiling in “Scream & Shout” [and, as always, this is raw, unrefined writing/work in progress…] will.i.am & Britney’s “Scream and Shout” does something really musicallyinteresting. The track features Britney: she went into a recording studio to lay…
I started a tumblr.
its her factory now has an associated tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty. I’m using the tumblr as a short-form notebook, mainly for ideas too short for the blog but longer than 140/280 characters.
From the “Exchange of Women” to “Gendered Competition”
This is a collection of rudimentary thoughts from last night’s Feminist Philosophy class. We read Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women” and Luce Irigaray’s “Women on the Market.” Both of these are decades-old analyses of the “exchange of women”. Rubin…
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