Bro-gemony & dubstep

Bro-gemony & dubstep

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[This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. It’s also a very rough, thinking-as-I-write piece. It may jump around a lot. If I’ve left something underexplained, let me know!] Yesterday, Mike D’Errico posted a wonderfully provocative essay about brostep, the Military Entertainment…

I Love It!: Icona Pop’s Feminine Endings

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Icona Pop’s “I Love It” is definitely going to be one of the big songs of 2013. It’s a great little pop song that’s all over charts and in several advertisements. Some people are writing about the sociological and cultural…

From Bay to Brostep: Neoliberalism from post-cinematic affect to EDM

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Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect addresses the way the shift between classically liberal and neoliberal systems of social/artistic organization plays out in film and 4D visual media (And, I’m working with the version printed in Film-Philosophy, because that’s what I taught…