–> There is an article in today’s Inside Higher Ed that argues philosophy, as a discipline, needs to be less insular and more interdisciplinary. I totally and enthusiastically concur with that claim. However, the article is framed in a way…
Or, Why I Will Not Sign The “Increase Safety Measures On Campus To Prevent Future Attacks” Petition Recently there was a male-on-female sexual assault in a classroom building at UNC Charlotte. I teach a class in that building this semester,…
On 11/11/12, Ludacris (feat. Usher & David Guetta) posted a video for his single “Rest of My life” to YouTube. Interestingly, and awesomely, this video all but explicitly posits the main claim of my article on EDM and neoliberalism in…
“…mistaking anti-social surrealism for social realism” (Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun). People keep accusing Rihanna of this, that, and the other, when really she’s doing us such a favor that the least we could do is maybe buy…
Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 2 This post is about the comments and discussion about my paper “I’ve Lost Control: Negative Affect, Feminism, and Race.” You can find links to the paper and the media I discuss in it here….
In case you missed it, Simon Reynolds wrote a great article about Ke$ha’s new album over in Sunday’s NYTimes, and it quotes yrs truly on a few points. Simon and I had a good conversation about Ke$ha’s work, especially as…
I was originally going to include this as part of an article I’m working for the premier issue of a really awesome Australian journal called Creature. And by really awesome, I mean it’s going to include stuff by Nina Power…
Such a good conference—many great panels, and I even liked Rochester…the brutalism, the grittiness, the downtown-Cincinnati-circa-1985 (ie pre-gentrification) feel. (Maybe I was the only person who was disappointed SPEP conflicted with MusicCon (AMS/SMT)?) I want to take some time to…
Today at 4 I’m giving a talk at SPEP. It’s titled “I’ve Lost Control: Negative Affect, Feminism, and Race.” Kathryn Gines from PSU has some great questions and commentary, too. Here‘s a link to a copy of the paper. Here…
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