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
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…
“Waves of Moderation”–My plenary talk for the Sound, Music, & Affect Conference at Stony Brook on 4/18
I’m honored and excited to be giving one of the plenary talks at the upcoming Sound, Music, & Affect conference at Stony Brook.Here is the full text of my talk. IASPM attendees will notice that this is a more fully fleshed-out…
Bro-gemony & dubstep
[This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. It’s also a very rough, thinking-as-I-write piece. It may jump around a lot. If I’ve left something underexplained, let me know!] Yesterday, Mike D’Errico posted a wonderfully provocative essay about brostep, the Military Entertainment…
Anti-Social Practice Against Communicative Capitalism?
Political philosophers often use terms like “having a voice” or “legibility” to describe an individual’s or group’s relationship to power and to hegemonic institutions. But these terms, “voice” and “legibility,” they’re aesthetic terms used to describe political phenomena. Why, in…
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…
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…
On PRISM, or Listening Neoliberally
So, here’s a rough, first pass at theorizing one aspect of what’s significant about PRISM. It’s very preliminary, and I would love your thoughts and feedback, as it’s part of some larger projects I’m currently working on. “Nobody is listening…
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