Is neoliberalism’s becoming-woman also a becoming-sound? (and some thoughts on listening, social media, and feminized labor)

This will be cross-posted at Cyborgology later this week. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari argue that “music is traversed by a becoming-woman” (272). By this they mean that Western systems of musical organization evoke and confront the very…

The Financialized Girl

The Financialized Girl

This is from the Girl Scouts website. This is a cross-post from Cyborgology.  In an earlier post, I asked what happens to femininity when the kind of second-shift care work traditionally assigned to women is increasingly a feature of all work, especially conventionally…

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…

a different kind of buzz: harmony, white femininity, and multi-racial white supremacist patriarchy

[this is a little rough; i may come back and edit it if i have time this weekend. that said, i’d love any thoughts or feedback you might have.] When I first heard Lorde’s single “Royals” on Charlotte radio, all…

Seeing Music For What It Really Isn't

Seeing Music For What It Really Isn’t

or, “‘Reality’ is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes” This is cross-posted from cyborgology. __ I get really nervous when people start making claims about what is and isn’t “real” music. Like Princess Leia in The…

Trolling Is the New Love & Theft

I’m crossposting this week’s post on cyborgology because it speaks directly to ideas I’ve been developing over here on IHF. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” have been two of the most controversial songs/videos in the…

I Love It!: Icona Pop’s Feminine Endings

Icona Pop’s “I Love It” is definitely going to be one of the big songs of 2013. It’s a great little pop song that’s all over charts and in several advertisements. Some people are writing about the sociological and cultural…

Wibbly-Wobbly Women for a Timey-Wimey Universe

I’ve got another post up at Cyborgology. This one is about the role of women/feminine compositional elements in “irrational” contemporary media formats and neoliberal political economy. It’s also about the season finale of Doctor Who.Here’s an excerpt: But the MPDG,…

Some thoughts on Spring Breakers, Beyonce, Resilience, and Race

Some thoughts on Spring Breakers, Beyonce, Resilience, and Race

I just watched Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers last night (I know, I know, so so so late to this party). There’s already been a ton of great criticism written about the film, but here I want to think about it…

Why does Plato hate the flute/aulos? And what does this have to do with women?

Why does Plato hate the flute/aulos? And what does this have to do with women?

These people, largely uneducated and unable to entertain themselves over their wine by using their own voices to generate conversation, pay premium prices for flute-girls and rely on the extraneous voice of the reed flute as background music for their…