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…
“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…
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…
Signal & Noise Why does a chapter nominally about “vibration, animal, music, sex” begin with a long discussion of philosophy, what it is and what it does? Is this evidence that “music” is really just philosophy’s other, its negative? Are…
I’m starting work on my third book, which I am tentatively calling “Signal & Noise”. This involves a lot of reading; I am going to try to post short reflections on what I’m reading as I work my way through…
This will be cross-posted at Cyborgology later this week. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari argue that “music is traversed by a becoming-woman” (272). By this they mean that Western systems of musical organization evoke and confront the very…
Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism is my forthcoming book with Zer0. I’ve finished writing it, and now I’m working on the formatting and all the other mechanics of preparing it for press. That includes writing back cover matter…
C had a telephone pickup lying around his studio, so we decided it would be interesting to hook it up to the drone. Telephone pickups (like guitar pickups) listen for electronic signals, not sound waves. So, what you’re hearing here…
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.
This is crossposted at stardotstudio. This week we decided to record the drones as they flew by a stand mic. We wanted to get a sense of how they sounded, what specific moves (e.g., fast breaking, rotating on the yaw/…
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