Transmission: Sound, Affect, and Joy Division/New Order

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This post is a very, very initial attempt to sketch a theory of “transmission.” I develop this idea of transmission in conversation with Jasbir Puar, Joy Division, and Bauhaus. Transmission is an sound-based concept, an attempt to theorize from “the…

What is “negative” about political negativity?: On Halberstam, Joy Division, and Grace Jones (London’s Burning #3)

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This post follows up on the previous one, which discussed Halberstam’s concept of political negativity. This bluring—or “ambiguity,” if you will—of subject/object position is even more evident in Grace Jone’s cover of “She’s Lost Control.” In my view, it is…

What is “negative” about political negativity?: On Halberstam, Joy Division, and Grace Jones (London’s Burning #3)

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So, I’m working on several projects related to the use of music in contemporary queer theory. You all know I’ve been thinking about the role of punk in the futurity/relationality debates, and I’ve written before on the Halberstam/Edelman exhange on…