I'm Teaching Philosophy of Music This Summer

I’m Teaching Philosophy of Music This Summer

Syllabus coming soon. My summer 2013 course in Philosophy of Music is open to both undergrads and grad students from UNCC & elsewhere. Registration opens in a month!Students from outside UNCC: if you can locate yourself in Charlotte for 5 weeks…

Re-Viewing Neoliberalism–Full text of my CAA 2013 paper

I’m presenting a talk next Wednesday afternoon at the College Art Association meeting in NYC. The title is “Re-Viewing Neoliberalism.” I’ll be talking through the paper (because this is a talk), which you can find in full-on prose form here. I…

Check out my tumblr (reminder)

Just a note to remind everyone that I’ve started posting shorter-form, less formalized thoughts, ideas, links, quotes, etc., over at my new tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com.Here is a link to a post collecting some of my thoughts on a few things music…

Don’t you know that magnificence is…truly reserved for the upper class?

xpost from my tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com (See especially 5:00) “Why don’t you get bored, go back to school And don’t ask for any of this magnificence…” There’s this idea that students need to be trained for specific careers, and that liberal…

“Britney, bitch” and 4D sonic/affective transmission

“Britney, bitch” and 4D sonic/affective transmission

OR: superpanoptic data profiling in “Scream & Shout” [and, as always, this is raw, unrefined writing/work in progress…] will.i.am & Britney’s “Scream and Shout” does something really musicallyinteresting. The track features Britney: she went into a recording studio to lay…

I started a tumblr.

its her factory now has an associated tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty. I’m using the tumblr as a short-form notebook, mainly for ideas too short for the blog but longer than 140/280 characters. 

From the “Exchange of Women” to “Gendered Competition”

This is a collection of rudimentary thoughts from last night’s Feminist Philosophy class. We read Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women” and Luce Irigaray’s “Women on the Market.” Both of these are decades-old analyses of the “exchange of women”. Rubin…

Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen at Woman Made Gallery

Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen at Woman Made Gallery

My “Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen” piece is part of the Public/Private group show at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. It runs from 18 January-21 February. Here‘s the link to the gallery’s page about the show. I’ll be at the…

Neoliberalism & Transnational Black Masculinities in Taio Cruz’s “Hangover”

Here I rework my earlier reading of Taio Cruz’s “Hangover” to show how neoliberalism actively cultivates transgression, producing what I call a “faux-gression” that gets fed back into neoliberal means of production, augmenting privilege, hegemony, etc. I cut this from…