Feminist Theory Week 2: Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
This is the second installment of me blogging my way through the course texts for my spring 2018 seminar in feminist theory. Today we read selections of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch. This is a classic text in feminist…
On Private Property & Gender
I’m teaching a lot of new texts this term in my graduate feminist theory course, so to collect my thoughts as I work my way through the readings I’ve decided to write up something every week and post it here. …
What I did in 2017
People do these year-end rundowns of accomplishments, and I find they’re helpful to draft what will ultimately become my performance review that I’ll have to file sometime this spring term. So, voila: Writing I published 2 peer reviewed articles: “Is…
A Non-Zero-Sum Game: some thoughts on the politics of scholarship
In the Q&A at my Goldsmith’s talk, part of the conversation was about how to do more just and ethical scholarship. Given what I had discussed about Ashon Crawley’s critique of Philosophy-capital-P as a practice of enclosure [1], I was…
Sussex Talk
Today I’ll be speaking at Uni Sussex. Here’s the text of the talk.
Goldsmiths Talk
I’m speaking today at Goldsmiths University. Here’s the text of my talk.
Figuring out new projects now that the book is drafted
My friend Jill has a tradition of blogging every day in December, and this year she asked people to join her. I will try to join her. I just finished a book manuscript the day after Thanksgiving, and that means…
The Biopolitics of Vibratory Resonance
I’m speaking at the University of Cardiff on November 30th. This is the text of my talk; the intro is printed below. Traditionally, in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, music is addressed as the object of philosophical analysis: it is…
The root cause of the sexual assault/harassment epidemic: Though prohibited de jure, culture de facto entitles men to the use of women’s bodies as sexual property
In the last few weeks, each day seems to bring news that yet another handful of prominent men are serial sexual assailants and/or harassers. As a feminist political philosopher, I know that this is not a matter of bad apples,…
Novelty, Speculation, Heartbreak: How pop music conceives of “the future” (1983-2017)
I’m giving a talk at the end of the month at the Future Sounds of Pop Music conference in Bern. Here’s the (too)full text of the talk. I’ve reprinted the introduction below. Looking at US and UK pop from the…
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