This is from the Girl Scouts website. This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. In an earlier post, I asked what happens to femininity when the kind of second-shift care work traditionally assigned to women is increasingly a feature of all work, especially conventionally…
christian.ryan and I, as citation:obsolete, are working on our #musicfordrones project. We received an internal grant from UNCC to purchase four Phantom quadcopter drones, some mics, and other related equipment. This summer we’re beginning the actual work on the project….
The Chainsmokers’ song “Selfie” is the new novelty song that everyone (or, almost everyone) loves to hate. In this Fact Magazine critics roundup, the song is called everything from “a low point…even for EDM,” to the one thing worse than…
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,…
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,…
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…
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….
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. I find Pharrell’s massive hit “Happy” really, really irritating. And, for that reason, I love it. In the same way that The Sex Pistols were Malcolm McLaren’s massive joke on us, this song is,…
I’m honored and excited to be giving one of the plenary talks at the upcoming Sound, Music, & Affect conference at Stony Brook.Here is the full text of my talk. IASPM attendees will notice that this is a more fully fleshed-out…
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…
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