A short playlist of old pop songs about US warmongering (bc la plus ca change…)
Dead Kennedys, “Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round” Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Two Tribes” L7, “Wargasm” Ministry, “NWO” Any more recent songs to add to the list?
Listening & Compression As Metaphors For Algorithmically Curated News Feeds
This is a revised version of a post I originally published on 9/10/14. Thanks for all the feedback! I’m still not finished with this argument, so if you have further ideas, I’d love to talk. In her post on Twitter’s…
On Resilience & ‘Self-Care As Warfare’
I really, really loved Sara Ahmed’s “Self-Care as Warfare.” My responses to it are really oriented by my own perspective as a white woman, as someone who is praised, rewarded, and obligated for resiliently surviving amid all the patriarchal damage…
More on Vibrant Matter: on noise, biopolitics, new paradoxes of whiteness, & why Beauvoiran Freedom is better than Bennettian Vitality
This is yet another installment of Robin blogs her way through the initial research for her new book project. So, all the usual caveats: initial thoughts, raw and unrefined, barf-it-out-in-writing, needs lots of feedback and revision, etc etc. I realize…
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…
“Shake It Off” & the post-identity politics of post-genre pop
This started out as an essay about Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video, but it grew into a larger discussion of post-identity politics and post-genre pop music aesthetics. I’m interested in their common features, values, and practices. Because genre-mixing and…
some initial thoughts on Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter”
Welcome to the next installment of Robin blogs her way through initial research for her new book. As usual, this is all very raw, just me trying to articulate some ideas and think out loud. I’ve made a little headway…
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…
On Music, Race, & Nature in Grosz’s Nick of Time
I’ve been working through Grosz’s recent-ish work to try to figure out what she means by “music” and what work it does for her as a thinker of matter and affect. Here I focus on her reading of Darwin’s account…
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