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
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…
Music Geek-Out #9: Pixies “Monkey Gone to Heaven”
Again, there are many reasons why I chose this song for the philoSOPHIA dinner playlist at Miami. As I mentioned, I was doing a little “awesome female bassist” subsection of the set. AND, at a school an hour away from…
Music Geek-Out #8: Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
Not only is this song a classic in the Modern Rock canon, it also has some specific significance in my grad school experience, and it plays nicely off one of the first songs in the “dance party” portion of the…
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