Some thoughts on Spring Breakers, Beyonce, Resilience, and Race
I just watched Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers last night (I know, I know, so so so late to this party). There’s already been a ton of great criticism written about the film, but here I want to think about it…
Sound Body: Ohio abortion laws, Wendy Davis, & Rachel Jeantel
A number of recent events led me to think about the way women’s relationship to the state and to citizenship/civil personhood is constituted in and through sound. I also want to think about the technologies that help women’s bodies make…
Feminism, Neoliberalism, & Goth
I’m giving two slightly different versions of a talk on Gaga Feminism, Neoliberalism, Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, Rihanna, & Goth, one tomorrow at Wayne State, and the other in April at Luther College. Because I usually talk rather than read, I…
“Look, I Overcame!”: Feminine Subjectivity, Resilience, & Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy
In his recent essay in Radical Philosophy, mark Neocleous argues that the ideal of “resilience” has replaced the ideal of “security,” both as a structure of individual subjectivity and a principle of social/national policy.[i]Briefly, he defines resilience as “the capacity…
The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plain: On Sound & The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy
Here’s an excerpt from a rough draft of a paper I’m working up for the American Philosophies Forum at Emory in April. The theme of the meeting is “The Ineffable,” so I’m writing on Vladimir Jankelevitch‘s and Carolyn Abbate‘s work…
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…
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…
Rihanna’s Unapologetic Shadow Feminism, part 2
As always, this is pretty raw, first-draft stage material. I welcome your feedback 🙂 Thanks to everyone who has read and given feedback on part 1 of this series! The continued outcry and worry about Rihanna and her album clearly…
Violence against Women at UNCC:More Police & More Surveillance Won’t Protect Us
Or, Why I Will Not Sign The “Increase Safety Measures On Campus To Prevent Future Attacks” Petition Recently there was a male-on-female sexual assault in a classroom building at UNC Charlotte. I teach a class in that building this semester,…
Rihanna’s Unapologetic “Shadow” Feminism, pt. 1
“…mistaking anti-social surrealism for social realism” (Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun). People keep accusing Rihanna of this, that, and the other, when really she’s doing us such a favor that the least we could do is maybe buy…
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