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24Ewa 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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34The Gender Politics of Music and the Ineffable: On the Feminine in Jankelevitch and LevinasJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 5 (2): 99-118. 2018.ABSTRACTTranslated into English in 2004, Vladimir Jankelevitch’s book Music and the Ineffable has made a significant impact in anglophone musicology. I argue that the figure of the feminine is central to his understanding of music and musical ineffability, and use feminist philosophers’ interpretations and critiques of the figure of the feminine in his close friend and colleague Emmanuel Levinas’s work to unpack the gender politics of Jankelevitch’s book and the secondary literature on it. I foc…Read more
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1205Race 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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50Philosophies 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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1718Gender, 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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15Gayraud 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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91Some 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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81Sonic 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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27The 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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9Resilience & melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalismZero Books. 2014.Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight back?