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…
Wound Down Inside
My new essay on Lana Del Rey, post-maximalist pop, and gender is now up for free at The New Inquiry. Here’s a sample: Undercutting the sonic impact of a downbeat is not a new thing. In 19th century European…
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.
Some thoughts on philoSOPHIA 2014
The amazing XCPhilosophy Collective are hosting a series of posts on philoSOPHIA’s 2014 meeting, and I got to kick them off. Find my post here. I talk about Foucault/Into the Death, Beauvoirian Ambiguity, Poptimism and the Feminist Philosophy of Sports,…
“Oh Bondage, Up Yours!”: Resilience as Feminine Ideal and Racializing Technology–my philoSOPHIA 2014 talk
Here is the outline from which I will be speaking tomorrow morning at philoSOPHIA: a feminist society’s meeting at Penn State. I’ve also reproduced it below; the formatting in the gdoc is prettier. Introduction [SLIDE 1] XRay Spex: “O Bondage,…
Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool
Here is a PDF of my forthcoming article in Culture, Theory, & Critique. Here is the article’s introduction: According to theorists like Jacques Rancie`re and Mark Fisher, that it is impossibleto even imagine alternatives to the status quo is one of…
Ahmed Killjoys Class Agenda
This is the agenda for Feminist Theory on 4/22/14. Attend & Announce Next class is the last class! We’ll read the Grace Jones section of Shavrio’s PCA Projects are due in my email inbox no later than 11:59pm Sunday 5/4….
Against “Ordinaryism” as an alternative to Accelerationism
Recently Robert Jackson wrote an essay that considered “ordinaryism” as a possible alternative to neoliberal accelerationism. He argues: Our provocation towards, what I call ‘ordinaryism’ is less of a tactical move, not a hostile polemic, certainly not a threat, than…
Some thoughts on “the mainstream”
Yesterday’s plenary panel at IASPM was about “the mainstream” as a (pop) cultural phenomenon, a media practice, and a critical theoretical concept. I have some really nerdy philosophical thoughts about the conversation that I didn’t bring up in the discussion…
Contortions & Disorientation–On not being comfortable
The philosophy blogosphere is currently debating the politics of tone and “civility.” Many, many, MANY philosophers can’t seem to understand why anyone should ever be made to feel uncomfortable in a conversation with someone else. Basically, the idea they’re resisting…
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