With the 50th anniversary fete this weekend, I thought a quick post on Doctor Who and (mainly pop) music was in order.First, the arrangement–and the signature sound–of the original theme song was performed by none other than the amazing Delia…
Even though this is specifically targeted as a response to Ewa Ziarek’s fabulous new book Feminist Aesthetics & The Politics of Modernism, this paper will be of interest to those of you who have been following my work on resilience,…
[this is a little rough; i may come back and edit it if i have time this weekend. that said, i’d love any thoughts or feedback you might have.] When I first heard Lorde’s single “Royals” on Charlotte radio, all…
or, “‘Reality’ is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes” This is cross-posted from cyborgology. __ I get really nervous when people start making claims about what is and isn’t “real” music. Like Princess Leia in The…
So, this weekend I watched GI Joe 2. For all of the things it doesn’t do–like be aesthetically “good” cinema–one thing it does capture fairly well is the obsolesce of cold-war thinking (which, obviously, was what informed the cartoons on which the…
I am not going to say a lot about the George Zimmerman verdict. I think this is one of those instances in which white people need to STFU and spend their time & energy in supporting roles. Like, this is…
I’ve got another post up at Cyborgology. This one is about the role of women/feminine compositional elements in “irrational” contemporary media formats and neoliberal political economy. It’s also about the season finale of Doctor Who.Here’s an excerpt: But the MPDG,…
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