My Talk at the New England Popular Culture Association 2017 Meeting

I’m talking about “Chill Moderation & Feminine Loudness” today (Friday 10/27/17) at the NEPCA meeting in Amherst, MA. Here is the copy of the outline I’ll be speaking from.

SPEP 2017 Talk: Philosophies or Phonographies?: on the political stakes of theorizing about and through “music”

Here is the full text of my talk for the 2017 SPEP meeting. I’ve printed the introduction below. Traditionally, in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, music is addressed as the object of philosophical analysis: it is either a case study for…

Introduction to The Sonic Episteme, v 2.2

I have a full draft of the whole book, and I’ve just finished revising the introduction to reflect all the changes and additions I made over the summer. It has a more nuanced version of the argument, and a full…

An Update

2017 brings some big life changes for me, so I thought I’d update everyone on what’s happening and how that’s affecting my work. My partner will be starting a teaching gig at a prep school in Connecticut this fall. This…

revised intro for my chapter on new materialism

Back in 2014 I started working on this book chapter about feminist new materialism. I was trying to figure out what’s at stake in new materialist theorists’ widespread adoption of acoustic or acoustic-like metaphors: resonance, vibration, diffraction, etc. Here’s the…

IASPM-International Monday Keynote Talk

I’m giving the opening keynote at IASPM-International this Monday the 26th June. Here’s the full text of the talk. In case my slides don’t work on the projector, here they are.

Groningen Talk

On Friday the 23rd of June I’ll be talking at the University of Groningen. Here’s the text of the talk. It’s a significantly revised version of the talk I gave at NYU in April that clarifies more of what’s going…

A Few Radio Appearances

I did some longform radio appearances this spring. Here is an interview I did on Southern Wonder, a program on Charlotte Community Radio. I talked mostly about my research and writing. Here is my appearance on NPR’s On Point, discussing…

Protocols–A post on pedagogy

Most of my posts are about research, but this is a post about pedagogy. This semester in my Theories of Sound & Music course, I tried out a kind of assignment that I was assigned as an undergraduate and graduate…

Chill Pop & Feminine Excess–A “Sign Of The Times”

In the early 2010s, neoliberalism’s demand to intensify risk and maximize reward had pop culture riding a maximalist high.[1] People wore tshirts and baseball hats emblazoned with neon “YOLO”s (You Only Live Once) and listened to a seemingly endless number…