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…
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…
I’m giving a talk Friday 3/14/14 at the IASPM-US conference in Chapel Hill. Here is the outline from which I’ll be speaking. You can use it to follow along if you’re there, or to peek at some ongoing research if…
Over on CUNY’s Digital Labor Working Group Blog, I’m participating in a symposium organized by Karen Gregory on Angela Mitropoulos’s book Contract & Contagion. The book is about “oikonomics,” or Mitropoulos’s reworking of biopolitics through a concept of the gendered, racialized, sexualized, etc.,…
This is an excerpt of a talk I gave at DePaul University in February 2014. I think it will be relevant for some of the conversations that I will be participating in this week over on the CUNY Digital Labor…
This is cross-posted from Cyborgology. This post is really a series of questions that arise when I tried to think about my earlier post on the production of WOC/black feminists as “toxic” in light of Jodi Dean’s new post “What comes after…
Some really great and provocative work on philosophical pluralism & philosophy’s demographic problem
The XCPhilosophy Collective has had a series of posts on the related problems of “diverse practices” and “diverse practitioners” in philosophy. They posted a wrap-up of the convo so far here. You should really check it out! I especially like…
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. Concepts like “the male gaze” and “controlling images” are Gender Studies 101 material: they’re the basic terms in which many feminists understand the media’s oppression of white women (in the case of the male…
Tonight we’re reading Tiqqun’s Young-Girl essay and Weigel & Ahern’s response in TNI. Here are some questions for discussion: Further Questions Is Tiqqun just devaluing as feminine everything that’s bad about neoliberalism? So Tiquun says the YG “is absolutely not…
I am absolutely thrilled to be presenting the keynote talk at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, “Philosophy on Trial: Philosophy & Its Others.”My talk is at 4pm this Saturday the 15th in the Levan Center on DePaul’s…
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