On Sound & Biopolitics–my post over at SoundingOut!

I’m incredibly excited to make my debut over at SoundingOut!. My post “‘Cremation of senses in friendly fire’: on sound & biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) went up today. Here’s a sample:   There’s a 20-year gap in chronology…

I Can Hear You Watching Me

As citation:obsolete was preparing to start work on Music for Drones, I noticed that police helicopters circled our neighborhood a LOT. So, I started recording the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) choppers as they circled (and sometimes hovered) my neighborhood, often…

Big Data & the ‘Physics’ of Social Harmony (and some stuff on Snowpiercer, JS Mill, & Ranciere)

This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. I want to think about the relationship two recent-ish articles draw between big data and social “harmony.” Why is big data something that we think is well-suited to facilitate a harmonious society? Or, when we think…

A few thoughts on Katy Perry’s “This Is How We Do”

“I fought the laws of economic rationality, and I won.”   The neoliberal subject is supposed to make economically rational calculations about how she spends her time, her money, and her energy. Do I spend my time working, or would…

Updated my articles on PhilPapers

I just updated my PhilPapers profile to include full-text versions of all my recent publications. There’s a widget on the lower right of the blog that takes you to PhilPapers, or you can find my profile page here.