“Britney, bitch” and 4D sonic/affective transmission

“Britney, bitch” and 4D sonic/affective transmission

OR: superpanoptic data profiling in “Scream & Shout” [and, as always, this is raw, unrefined writing/work in progress…] will.i.am & Britney’s “Scream and Shout” does something really musicallyinteresting. The track features Britney: she went into a recording studio to lay…

A Few Unfinished Thoughts On Usher’s “Numb”

I was originally going to include this as part of an article I’m working for the premier issue of a really awesome Australian journal called Creature. And by really awesome, I mean it’s going to include stuff by Nina Power…

From Bay to Brostep: Neoliberalism from post-cinematic affect to EDM

Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect addresses the way the shift between classically liberal and neoliberal systems of social/artistic organization plays out in film and 4D visual media (And, I’m working with the version printed in Film-Philosophy, because that’s what I taught…