Music as the Other of Philosophy and Proxy for Philosophy’s Others: Some Initial Thoughts On Grosz
I’m fairly new to Elizabeth Grosz’s work, and these are just some initial thoughts as I prepare for Monday’s grad class. Feedback is, as always, welcome. All references are to Chaos, Territory, Art. While Grosz claims she is not orientalizingly…
Unnatural Participations: Thoughts on Deleuze & Affect, Paul Ryan, Flava Flav, and Bez
That’s Bez, Happy Mondays’ hype man, on the left. The purpose of this post is both to help the students in my grad class, who are starting out the semester with the “Becoming-Intense” chapter of Thousand Platueaus, and to draw…
The Pleasure Principle Meets the Performance Principle: Gary Numan, Marcuse, and Neoliberalism
So I think Gary Numan’s work—I’m thinking Tubeway Army & Pleasure Principle stuff—is a really helpful example of the ways neoliberalism and “global/info” capital reworks the structuring binaries of classical liberalism and commodity capitalism. Binaries like public/private, authentic/alienated, use/exchange—these all…
Falling Skies, The Skitter Rebellion, and White Feminism
Because I limit my TV more or less to science fiction, Shameless, and anything with Lance Reddick in it, I’ve been following Falling Skies. Basically, it’s a post-apocalyptic alien-invasion/human genocide series. It can be overly maudlin at times, with its…
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