Check out my tumblr (reminder)

Just a note to remind everyone that I’ve started posting shorter-form, less formalized thoughts, ideas, links, quotes, etc., over at my new tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com.Here is a link to a post collecting some of my thoughts on a few things music…

I started a tumblr.

its her factory now has an associated tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty. I’m using the tumblr as a short-form notebook, mainly for ideas too short for the blog but longer than 140/280 characters. 

Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen at Woman Made Gallery

Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen at Woman Made Gallery

My “Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen” piece is part of the Public/Private group show at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. It runs from 18 January-21 February. Here‘s the link to the gallery’s page about the show. I’ll be at the…

"Loving the Alien": My article in The New Inquiry

“Loving the Alien”: My article in The New Inquiry

If you haven’t already subscribed to The New Inquiry, you should fork over your two dollars soon, or else you won’t be able to read my article on Neoliberalism, Foucault, Jacques Attali, EDM, and Xenomania. It’s in October’s issue on…

Tweet A Sound–This Thursday

I’m participating in #tweetasound this Thursday the 27th. I’ve been playing around with Audioboo, and I might try soundcloud next….but Audioboo is really intuitive to use, so you should get the app and join in!   tweet |twēt|, n. 1. the…

Music Geek-Out #14: Peter Murphy’s “Cuts You Up”

The next two songs in the playlist are my brief, brief nod to pre-90s goth. First is Peter Murphy’s “Cuts You Up,” off is 1990 album Deep. Murphy used to be the singer of iconic 80s goth band Bauhaus, which…

Music Geek-Out # 13: Guided By Voices “I Am a Scientist”

Guided By Voices is a Dayton band, and they were in heavy, heavy rotation on WOXY.  I chose this song for two reasons: (1) it’s one of my favorite GBV songs, and (2) in German, “science” or “Wissenshaft” has a…

Music Geek-Out #12: (London) Suede’s “Beautiful Ones”

Wow, I’ve dropped the ball on this series. Sorry! Lots of summer writing, a book proposal to get out, articles to get out, all that jazz. Anyway, this is part of a playlist I did for philoSOPHIA 2012, hosted at…

Rhythm Nation, Vangelis, and Blade Runner

One day at the gym I was listening to Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 album (an album that I first bought on cassette tape, at a record store in Tri-County Mall, back in the late 80s).  The very first track…

From New Wave to No Wave: The (d)evolution of whiteness in late 70s post-punk music aesthetics — #1

“The strangeness that seems to reside somewhere between the body and its objects is also what brings these objects to life and makes them dance” (Ahmed QP 162; emphasis mine). I’m working on a chapter for a collection on critical…