Just Ludacris Enough — Outline for my IASPM talk Friday 3/14/14
I’m giving a talk Friday 3/14/14 at the IASPM-US conference in Chapel Hill. Here is the outline from which I’ll be speaking. You can use it to follow along if you’re there, or to peek at some ongoing research if…
Sound, Sophrosyne, & the “Excesses of Affection”
Over on CUNY’s Digital Labor Working Group Blog, I’m participating in a symposium organized by Karen Gregory on Angela Mitropoulos’s book Contract & Contagion. The book is about “oikonomics,” or Mitropoulos’s reworking of biopolitics through a concept of the gendered, racialized, sexualized, etc.,…
Philosophical Attunements: Flutes & Women in Plato’s Symposium
This is an excerpt of a talk I gave at DePaul University in February 2014. I think it will be relevant for some of the conversations that I will be participating in this week over on the CUNY Digital Labor…
Toxic women and “absolute subsumption”
This is cross-posted from Cyborgology. This post is really a series of questions that arise when I tried to think about my earlier post on the production of WOC/black feminists as “toxic” in light of Jodi Dean’s new post “What comes after…
Some really great and provocative work on philosophical pluralism & philosophy’s demographic problem
The XCPhilosophy Collective has had a series of posts on the related problems of “diverse practices” and “diverse practitioners” in philosophy. They posted a wrap-up of the convo so far here. You should really check it out! I especially like…
Toxic: on race, gender, and resilient labor on social media
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. Concepts like “the male gaze” and “controlling images” are Gender Studies 101 material: they’re the basic terms in which many feminists understand the media’s oppression of white women (in the case of the male…
From “London Calling”‘s cold-war nuclear apocalypse to “NWO”‘s new world order
I’m teaching a music & society class this semester, and it’s focused on punk, hip hop, and disco. I’ve put together a set of songs (loosely within those genres and their progeny) that focus on the last decades of the cold…
To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes
To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes: Yay! I’m so glad you’re here–both because that means you are interested in feminism, but also because you bring lots of philosophical expertise with you. Also, feminist philosophy has a…
it’s her factory: new site for Robin M. James
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