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3023Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of UncoolCulture, Theory, and Critique 52 (2): 138-158. 2014.Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali’s theory of “composition” and the biopolitics of “uncool.” Reading Jacques Attali’s Noise through Foucault’s late work, I argue that Attali’s concept of “repetition” is best understood as a theory of neoliberal biopolitics, and his theory composition is actually a model of deregulated subjectivity. Composition is thus not an…Read more
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91White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-Racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?Lexington Books. 2014.George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question’s implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion of the “Black problem” narrative challenges contemporary rhetoric of a color-evasive world in a critically engaging and persuasive study.
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27Ewa Płonowska Ziarek. Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 4 (2): 244-249. 2014.
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1290Race and the Feminized Popular in Nietzsche and BeyondHypatia 28 (4): 749-766. 2013.I distinguish between the nineteenth- to twentieth-century (modernist) tendency to rehabilitate (white) femininity from the abject popular, and the twentieth- to twenty-first-century (postmodernist) tendency to rehabilitate the popular from abject white femininity. Careful attention to the role of nineteenth-century racial politics in Nietzsche's Gay Science shows that his work uses racial nonwhiteness to counter the supposedly deleterious effects of (white) femininity (passivity, conformity, an…Read more
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53Philosophies or Phonographies? On the Political Stakes of Theorizing About and Through "Music"Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (3): 499-513. 2018.Traditionally, in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, music is addressed as the object of philosophical analysis: it is either a case study for developing broader, generalizable ideas about ontology, metaphysics, or ethics, or it is the thing that we apply philosophical methods and concepts to.1 It is the philosophy of music, remember. But in the last several decades philosophers in these traditions have increasingly taken “music” as a model for philosophical analysis: There is a branch o…Read more
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1788Gender, race, and sexuality are not just identities; they are also systems of social organization – i.e., systems of privilege and oppression. This article addresses two main ways privilege and oppression (e.g., racism, misogyny, heteronormativity) are relevant topics in and for philosophical aesthetics: (i) the role of the aesthetic in privilege and oppression, and (ii) the role of philosophical aesthetics, as a discipline and a body of texts, in constructing and naturalizing relations of privi…Read more
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23Gayraud Agnès, Diaectic of Pop, Urbanomic/Mono Series (MIT Press, 2020), 456 pp., $29.95 (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1): 120-124. 2021.
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55Some feminists have argued that the “master's tools” cannot be utilized for feminist projects. When read through the lens of non-ideal theory, Judith Butler's reevaluation of “autonomy” and “universality” and Peaches's engagement with guitar rock are instances in which implements of patriarchy are productively repurposed for feminist ends. These examples evince two criteria whereby one can judge the success of such an attempt: first, accessibility and efficacy; second, that the use is deconstruc…Read more
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88Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Perceptual Coding and Phonographic CompressionFeminist Review 127 (1): 20-34. 2021.I argue that sound-centric scholarship can be of use to feminist theorists if and only if it begins from a non-ideal theory of sound; this article develops such a theory. To do this, I first develop more fully my claim that perceptual coding was a good metaphor for the ways that neoliberal market logics (re)produce relations of domination and subordination, such as white supremacist patriarchy. Because it was developed to facilitate the enclosure of the audio bandwidth, perceptual coding is espe…Read more
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29The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of MusicLexington Books. 2010.The Conjectural Body combines continental philosophy with musicology, popular music studies, and feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories to offer a unique perspective on issues of gender, race, and the philosophy of music. It is one of the few books in philosophy to take popular music seriously, and is one of the few books in continental feminism to privilege music over the visual
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14Resilience & melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalismZero Books. 2014.Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight back?