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Notes On Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus: or why some posthumanisms are better than others

November 26, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

[This is another one of my thinking-out-loud posts in which I work through a text, thinking as I write. So, undercooked, imprecise, too much bloat, etc etc you’ve been warned…] “Habeas viscus” is Alexander Weheliye’s term for the queerly racialized…

Vibrant Data

October 14, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

So, I think I will post this to Cyborgology later, but I would appreciate some feedback before I do…it feels a little too stuck in my current manuscript (or maybe *I* am just too stuck in my current manuscript). Is…

Race & Emergent “Musical” Processes: on Grosz, Reich, & Gopinath

October 3, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

I first published this post on 10/3/14. I have made significant edits to the “Reich” section, so even if you already read the original version, this new version is worth a look. This is another one of those Robin Thinks…

More on Vibrant Matter: on noise, biopolitics, new paradoxes of whiteness, & why Beauvoiran Freedom is better than Bennettian Vitality

September 3, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

This is yet another installment of Robin blogs her way through the initial research for her new book project. So, all the usual caveats: initial thoughts, raw and unrefined, barf-it-out-in-writing, needs lots of feedback and revision, etc etc. I realize…

some initial thoughts on Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter”

August 27, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

Welcome to the next installment of Robin blogs her way through initial research for her new book. As usual, this is all very raw, just me trying to articulate some ideas and think out loud. I’ve made a little headway…

On Music, Race, & Nature in Grosz’s Nick of Time

August 18, 2014 · by Robin James · in Uncategorized

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…

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