Music & the Ambivalent Politics of Feminist New Materialism–AMS MPSG 2014
Here’s the text of my extremely short talk at the 2014 AMS Music & Philosophy Study Group Session. Here is the longer chapter on which this talk draws. Music & The Ambivalent Politics of Feminist New Materialism Perhaps unwittingly,…
Some remarks and questions about philosophy & social media for SPEP 2014
This is the outline from which I will be speaking at the Advocacy Committee session on Philosophy & Social Media at SPEP 2014. I’m happy to talk about more practical things like how I incorporate social media into my…
Vibrant Data
So, I think I will post this to Cyborgology later, but I would appreciate some feedback before I do…it feels a little too stuck in my current manuscript (or maybe *I* am just too stuck in my current manuscript). Is…
Audio Recording of “Post Feminist Pop Music” App State U Women’s Studies Distinguished Speaker Series
On 10/8/14 I gave a talk “Post Feminist Pop Music” at App State University. Here’s the audio recording of the talk. I made it with my earbud mic and my phone.
Post-Feminist Pop: My talk at App State 10/8.
Here’s the outline from which I will be speaking at App State on 10/8/14. Please feel free to follow along. Post-Feminist Pop Abstract: Pop stars Lily Allen, Beyonce, Meghan Trainor, & Taylor Swift have all released work that depicts…
I’m Keynoting the Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference on Work & Play: Economies of Music
You can find the CFP here; the deadline is 12/5/14.
Race & Emergent “Musical” Processes: on Grosz, Reich, & Gopinath
I first published this post on 10/3/14. I have made significant edits to the “Reich” section, so even if you already read the original version, this new version is worth a look. This is another one of those Robin Thinks…
What we can learn about Philosophy’s diversity problems by comparing ourselves to Music Theory
There are few things philosophers like to do more than police the boundaries of the discipline by debating what counts as “real” philosophy. As Kristie Dotson has argued, the first question any philosophical question or argument has to answer is…
A few thoughts on Coldwaves, WaxTrax!, & feminized care/curatorial labor
This year, Coldwaves celebrated the 30th anniversary of Front 242’s first US show at Medusa’s, and also WaxTrax! Records‘s revival. The only reason WaxTrax! is around these days is because of the work Julia Nash (daughter of co-founder Jim Nash)…
Music For Drones: The first batch of audio sketches
I’m incredibly excited to post the first batch of audio sketches we’ve made from our initial recordings of a Phantom II quadcopter with a coil/pickup mic. You can find them all here on our soundcloud. I went in and updated…
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