Blogging my way through Grosz’s “Chaos, Territory, Art”: part 2, more thoughts on ‘music’ and (algo)rhythm
Signal & Noise Why does a chapter nominally about “vibration, animal, music, sex” begin with a long discussion of philosophy, what it is and what it does? Is this evidence that “music” is really just philosophy’s other, its negative? Are…
Sexual Difference, Indeterminacy, & Open Works: a few thoughts on Grosz
I’m starting work on my third book, which I am tentatively calling “Signal & Noise”. This involves a lot of reading; I am going to try to post short reflections on what I’m reading as I work my way through…
Phased Out: Resilience, Melancholy, & Feminist “Bad Vibes” (aka my 2013 SPEP talk responding to Ewa Ziarek)
Even though this is specifically targeted as a response to Ewa Ziarek’s fabulous new book Feminist Aesthetics & The Politics of Modernism, this paper will be of interest to those of you who have been following my work on resilience,…
Seeing Music For What It Really Isn’t
or, “‘Reality’ is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes” This is cross-posted from cyborgology. __ I get really nervous when people start making claims about what is and isn’t “real” music. Like Princess Leia in The…
Sound Body: Ohio abortion laws, Wendy Davis, & Rachel Jeantel
A number of recent events led me to think about the way women’s relationship to the state and to citizenship/civil personhood is constituted in and through sound. I also want to think about the technologies that help women’s bodies make…
More outtakes from my article on Attali, music, & neoliberalism
I’m editing down an article on Jacques Attali, Foucault, music, & neoliberalism. I’ve posted some outtakes before, and here are some more. They’re somewhat disjointed, as outtakes tend to be, but they’re generally about Attali’s theory of subjectivity. “Composer” as…
Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen
–>Here‘s a link to the Storify with all the sounds. Ideas This project is a sound- and social-media-based reperformance of Martha Rosler’s 1975 video “The Semiotics of the Kitchen.” Rosler’s work is one of the foundational texts in what…
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