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…

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…

Death Metal and the Power Over Life

This post is not making claims or coming to conclusions, but setting up a line of inquiry for further research. I have a pretty good sense of the overarching idea, but I need some more firm evidence to back it…

How To Subvert Biopolitical Administration/Big Data/Neoliberal Superpanopticism?

This post follows up, but doesn’t complete or come to any final conclusions about, some issues that were discussed in my Spring 2012 graduate feminist theory class. This past semester in my graduate feminist theory course, we read Foucault and…

Intensification vs Intersection: “Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln”

Intensification vs Intersection: “Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln” In this post I both unpack the slur in the title, and use it to explain how discourses of “difference” (race, sexuality) function in neoliberal Western democracies.   So some on the American…

Beyoncé, Gaga, Race, and Sexuality, or, 1+1 Doesn’t Always Equal 2

[This week I’m going to attempt a few “year-end” type posts. Being on semester break, now’s a god time for me to collect some thoughts that have been rattling around in my head all term, but I haven’t had time…