My SPEP 2015 Paper: Noisy Feminists, Neoliberal Sophrosyne, & Post-Identity Politics
It’s time for SPEP this year, and that means it’s time for me to post the text of my paper (that’s link to a gdoc). My session is Thursday afternoon, and I’ll be doing the typical Robin thing where I take a…
Rihconomics
Doreen St Felix’s amazing piece on Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Get My Money” hones in on Rih’s black feminist approach to the flows of (artistic, financial) credit, and to Rih’s method of accounting. “To be a black woman and genius, is…
Personal un-branding and the financialization of whiteness: or, let’s actually LISTEN to Taylor Swift as she shakes it off
With the rise of fashion trends like K-Hole’s normcore style and the Gap’s watered-down “Dress Normal” campaign, it seems like “uncool” has itself become a way for elites to opt-out of the imperative to build “cool” human capital, a “cool”…
Notes On Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus: or why some posthumanisms are better than others
[This is another one of my thinking-out-loud posts in which I work through a text, thinking as I write. So, undercooked, imprecise, too much bloat, etc etc you’ve been warned…] “Habeas viscus” is Alexander Weheliye’s term for the queerly racialized…
Vibrant Data
So, I think I will post this to Cyborgology later, but I would appreciate some feedback before I do…it feels a little too stuck in my current manuscript (or maybe *I* am just too stuck in my current manuscript). Is…
A few thoughts on Coldwaves, WaxTrax!, & feminized care/curatorial labor
This year, Coldwaves celebrated the 30th anniversary of Front 242’s first US show at Medusa’s, and also WaxTrax! Records‘s revival. The only reason WaxTrax! is around these days is because of the work Julia Nash (daughter of co-founder Jim Nash)…
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