On Pharrell's "Happy"

On Pharrell’s “Happy”

This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. I find Pharrell’s massive hit “Happy” really, really irritating. And, for that reason, I love it. In the same way that The Sex Pistols were Malcolm McLaren’s massive joke on us, this song is,…

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…

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…

Zimmerman/Martin

I am not going to say a lot about the George Zimmerman verdict. I think this is one of those instances in which white people need to STFU and spend their time & energy in supporting roles. Like, this is…

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…

ICYMI: My “Stop & Drone” post over on Cyborgology

I’m super excited that I’ll be doing a series of guest posts on Cyborgology this summer. Their work is so incredibly good, and it’s an honor to be published there. Anyway, my first guest post is up. It’s on drones,…

Nietzsche, Wagner, Biopolitics, Race, & Music

“Wagner makes music sick” (Nietzsche Contra Wagner, 664). “Life itself has become a problem” (Nietzsche Contra Wagner, 681). To mark Wagner’s bicentennial, the Guardian published this essay on the connection many of his contemporaries made between his music and mental…

More on Daft Punk: canonizing a history of EDM

This past week I got to talk about Daft Punk with Jason and Cassie at ABC’s The List. We had a great time talking, so much so that there was a lot that we discussed that couldn’t be fit into…

I talk about Daft Punk on "The List" (Australian Radio National)

I talk about Daft Punk on “The List” (Australian Radio National)

I had a great time talking to Jason DiRosso & Cassie McCullagh of Australia Radio National’s pop culture program “The List.” We had a fab conversation about the new Daft Punk album & marketing campaign. You can listen here. And, fwiw,…