Post-Probabilist Neoliberalisms (1 of n)
I’m working my way through the literature on post-probabilist or post-Gaussian neoliberalisms. I’ve written up some stuff trying to work through Lisa Adkins’s The Time of Money. There is a lot (10 pages), so I’ll list some of my big…
Panic! At the Disco’s “High Hopes” & the financial logic of the derivative
To get a sense of how Indie Rock-gone-pop aesthetics have shifted from modernist ideals of transgression to neoliberal ideals of success, you need look no further than the difference between U2’s 1987 “Where The Streets Have No Name” and Panic!…
Notes on Brexit Techno
A few initial thoughts I wanted to scribble down before I forgot them… The day after the 2017 Brexit vote was the first Monday of the month, and at that time first Monday of the month meant industrial techno artist…
My article on the WOXY Modern Rock 500
It’s Memorial Day Weekend 2019, which makes it the 30th anniversary of the first Modern Rock 500. I got to write about it in Belt Magazine. The link includes links to playlists of the 89, 99, and 09 countdowns, which…
WOXY Modern Rock 500 1989, 1999, 2009 Playlists up on YouTube
I’m working on a piece on the 30th anniversary of the first + 10th anniversary of the last 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500, which will be this (2019) Memorial Day Weekend. As part of the research for that, I’ve compiled…
On Taylor Swift’s “ME!”
Taylor Swift’s pastel confection of a new single “ME!” is a pendulum-swing away from the heel-turn she did on her previous album. Its’ ebulent girlish femininity apparently makes it hard for some reviewers to hide their misogyny behind clever phrases…
Some personal news about the 2019-20 academic year
For the 2019-20 academic year I’ll be taking a year leave of absence at UNCC so that I can be a Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University in Boston. I’m really looking forward to being back in a…
My PopCon 2018 Talk: “WOXY’s Gone To Heaven”: neoliberalism and the death of the “future of rock and roll”
I’m speaking at PopCon in Seattle again this year. Here’s the text of my talk.
Possibilist Speculation and Spotify Personas
Now that I’m finished with The Sonic Episteme I’m working on some currently very structureless project on the aesthetics of post-probabilist neoliberalisms. So this is me working through some ideas related to that project. At the level of math, derivatives…
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