My Paper for PopCon 2018: Gender & Private Property in 21st c Pop
Here’s the text of my talk for PopCon next Saturday. For those of you who have been following along my write-ups for my feminist theory grad class this semester, some of this will be drawn from and/or resonant with that…
Feminist Theory Week 11: Stoever, Carson, & Plato on the body-voice relationship
It’s nearing the end of the semester, so we’re covering stuff I’ve already written a lot about (look at that expert course planning, making sure my prep is light when I’m overextended and exhausted!). First, here is a piece on…
Feminist Theory Week 10: Stallings & Royster on trans aesthetics in Rihanna, Michael Jackson, & Grace Jones
Describing a “turn away from the political world’s emphasis on movement (or a movement) as buttressed by walks and marches and turn to the party’s articulation of movement” (179), Stallings challenges us to rethink common concepts of political movement. Though…
On the feminine in Jankelevitch’s “Music & the Ineffable” & what this has to do with Levinas’s “Totality and Infinity”
I’m working on a piece about the relationship between Vladimir Jankelevitch’s Music and the Ineffable and Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, which were both published the same year; Jankelevitch was an evaluator for the dissertation that later became Totality & Infinity….
Feminist Theory Week 9: Stallings “Funk The Erotic”
I’m blogging my way through the course texts for my grad feminist theory seminar. This week, it’s L.H. Stallings’s Funk the Erotic. As we have learned from Federici, Pateman, and Murphy, contemporary Western concepts of the body are grounded in…
Feminist Theory Week 8: Social Identities, Algorithmic Identities, & Trans Credit Reporting
After a few weeks off for lit review projects, I’m back blogging my way through the readings for my grad seminar on Feminist Theory. This week we read Linda Alcoff on social identities, John Cheney-Lippold on algorithmic identities, & Lars…
Feminist Theory Week 6: Angela Mitropolous’s Contract & Contagion
I’m blogging my way through the texts for my Spring 2018 Feminist Theory seminar. Angela Mitropolous’s Contract & Contagion takes up a lot of the themes we’ve discussed so far: contract (obviously), property in person, the public/private or production/reproduction split,…
On Michelle Murphy’s THE ECONOMIZATION OF LIFE
I’m blogging my way through the texts for my feminist theory seminar this spring. Here’s week 5. “At the turn of the twenty-first century, girls’ futures existed in a dense constellation of anticipatory relations, imagined as cascades of probabilistic…
Feminist Theory Week 4: Melinda Cooper’s FAMILY VALUES
I’m blogging my way through the course texts for my grad feminist theory seminar in Spring 2018. This week we’re reading Melinda Cooper’s book Family Values. Questions: What is the relationship between neoliberal notions of responsibility (see Cooper, but also…
Feminist Theory Week 3: Marriage
I am blogging my way through the course texts for my grad feminist theory seminar this term. This week we’re reading selections from Carole Pateman’s The Sexual Contract & Dean Spade & Craig Willse’s “Marriage Will Never Set Us Free.”…
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