The Role of Music in Rousseau’s Non-Ideal Domination Contract–Or, why you should read my book

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I’ve been reading Carole Pateman’s and Charles Mills’s Contract & Domination, prepping it to teach later this term in my graduate Feminist Theory class. Here, I want to talk about Mills’s discussion of the early, Discourses-era Rousseau, because I think…

Freedom Sounds and The Conjectural Body: Some (more) intersections between my work and Ingrid Monson’s

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I am a huge admirer of Ingrid Monson’s work, and find it hugely influential on my own work (see, for example, my article on hipness in Contemporary Aesthetics). I recently completed Freedom Sounds, her book on the racial politics of…