Back in 2014 I started working on this book chapter about feminist new materialism. I was trying to figure out what’s at stake in new materialist theorists’ widespread adoption of acoustic or acoustic-like metaphors: resonance, vibration, diffraction, etc. Here’s the…
I’m giving the opening keynote at IASPM-International this Monday the 26th June. Here’s the full text of the talk. In case my slides don’t work on the projector, here they are.
On Friday the 23rd of June I’ll be talking at the University of Groningen. Here’s the text of the talk. It’s a significantly revised version of the talk I gave at NYU in April that clarifies more of what’s going…
I did some longform radio appearances this spring. Here is an interview I did on Southern Wonder, a program on Charlotte Community Radio. I talked mostly about my research and writing. Here is my appearance on NPR’s On Point, discussing…
Most of my posts are about research, but this is a post about pedagogy. This semester in my Theories of Sound & Music course, I tried out a kind of assignment that I was assigned as an undergraduate and graduate…
In the early 2010s, neoliberalism’s demand to intensify risk and maximize reward had pop culture riding a maximalist high.[1] People wore tshirts and baseball hats emblazoned with neon “YOLO”s (You Only Live Once) and listened to a seemingly endless number…
This is a quick post; I’m sure I’ll come back to it later. However, I have some thoughts I want to capture before they’re gone. After reading and teaching Ashon Crawley’s Blackpentecostal Breath, I’ve been thinking a lot about…
I’m speaking at NYU’s Music Colloquium on Thursday April 27th. Here’s the text of my talk. I’ve put the introduction below. Anne Carson’s “The Gender of Sound” studies the women of classical Greek literature. They are presented as “a…
Here’s an excerpt from my book/manuscript The Sonic Episteme; it’s in a chapter on acoustic resonance as political ontology and follows a discussion of Ranciere’s Disagreement, Cavarero’s For More Than One Voice, & Fred Evans’s The Multivoiced Body. German…
This is the first draft of part of the last chapter of my current manuscript-in-process, The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & post-identity biopolitics. String theory is a subdiscipline within physics that blends general relativity (which focuses on macrocosmic spacetime) with…
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