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…

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,…

A Few Quick Thoughts on “Accidentally Racist”

I just want to briefly weigh in on the “Accidentally Racist” discussion. For those who don’t already know, this is a song by Brad Paisely featuring LL Cool J. The gyst of the song is that Paisely’s white narrator is…

Rihanna’s Unapologetic “Shadow” Feminism, pt. 1

“…mistaking anti-social surrealism for social realism” (Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun). People keep accusing Rihanna of this, that, and the other, when really she’s doing us such a favor that the least we could do is maybe buy…