This attempts the same thing that “it’s 2025 and the industry has given up on genre but I’m still going to rant about how bad poptimism is” does - it dresses up manosphere misogyny in supposedly more erudite terms.

Great time to be away at a conference lol, thoughts and prayers to everyone at AMS trying to fly home later this weekend…

SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops

Their performance of bad taste demonstrates their purported refusal to subordinate themselves to any sense of a shared society, like norms about what counts as good taste www.its-her-factory.com/2025/08/were...

I appreciate the KLF reference

SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops

Working on the author marketing form for Good Vibes Only & I know we talk about the connection btw research and teaching but can we also talk about the connection btw research and publishing? Working in publishing makes me a better researcher, in a diff way than teaching did.

Box of Uncle Ben’s classic, cooked and spread in casserole dish. Fill dish w chopped broccoli, cauli, carrots. Make roux, add like 2-3 c milk, then stir in grated 8oz block of cheddar. Pour over casserole, top w panko. Cook 350 for 45. Dinner for 2 for the work week.

In her 1993 “Whiteness As Property” Cheryl Harris showed how anti-affirmative action lawsuits made a new form of whiteness a property qua personal injury or “reverse discrimination”. It’s this now but amplified.

“Please act like That Guy In Philosophy Class”™️

Ok so uh how does one cite a Peloton ride?

I know IASPM-US doesn't traditionally have regional meetings but I feel like there are enough of us in New England to make maybe like a summer workshop viable? Like take a day trip, workshop your draft, don't spend too much time or money, etc...

Realizing that I probably do need to write this up - even tho it's kind of disconnected from other current projects I may be like the only person with the expertise to do this (I allllmost wrote my diss for Tina Chanter on sound in Levinas...)

AMS is this week! Come see me at the Palgrave booth if you have a book you want to talk about. We have a few series so new they're not on the website: Palgrave Studies in Television Music & Sound Palgrave Practical Guides in the Global Music Industry

Providence! On November 14 I'll be conversation with @robinjames.bsky.social about Big Feelings and The Future of Rock & Roll: Modern, indie, alternative, and all things rock related, from radio programming and corporate consolidation to queer community building and esoteric imagery. Please share!

I’m just, you know, a philosopher, but it seems obvious that intelligence is social and relational and the AI bros are deeply invested in it being private property that can be owned, so they will always always miss the mark.

NOW We are to the part where I play “James Brown Is Dead,” legit one of my favorite songs I recorded off of WOXY back in the day.

Dogs CAN tell time, they just DNGAF about our weird capitalist reorganization of it (They also have 'eldest daughters,' and one of their main functions is to let us know when we have not done something at the expected time, like feed or walk them. Ask Juno (and Laika, rip) how I know.)

Those 'welfare queen' gen AI images are a great example of how its epistemology is neither indexical nor normative; what matters is its ability to produce media aligned with what patriarchal racial capitalism has led people to feel is true.

TODAY

PROVIDENCE RI people - join @dandipiero.bsky.social and I at Symposium Books on 11/14 at 6 to hear us talk about our books BIG FEELINGS & my FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL. Together those book basically cover the entire history of indie rock in Ohio. www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

Tomorrow!

Scariest costume at the goth club so far tonight: Rahm Emmanuel

I think the alt-rock-to-alt-right article is...done?

Just published: CREATING COMMUNICATION & MEDIA RESEARCH LABS by Chad Edwards link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Is so hard knowing intellectually that community is the way but as the child of narcissists having a very hard time connecting and relying on other people…

tying up loose ends on my alt rock to alt right article, trying to emphasize my claim that alt rock crossed over in the early 90s not bc the music changed, but right-wing activism in the 80s remade white masculinity such that victimhood was an acceptable way to embody that racial and gendered status

THIS is an interesting data point

I, a popular music scholar, would say that the thing about 88/9 is that we see the full power of synths, samplers, tech come to bear across genres: Pretty Hate Machine, Rhythm Nation, It Takes A Nation of Millions THUB, hip hop and modern rock newly legible to the industry, etc.

It’s absolutely OK to respond to a peer reviewer’s suggestion with “That’s a great question! But it is one that I lack the scholarly expertise and background to address rigorously.” That’s how I’ve been responding to all the “what about religion?” Questions I get for the alt rock/right project.

My only contribution to The Discourse is that a bunch of white Gen X industrial music fans call Al Jourgensen “Uncle Al”

Today's story is about the mighty falling out between the lead singer and her former friends: www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/au-pairs-agr...

Just published! MUSIC, NEW MEDIA, & the ARCHIVE by Sarah Kirby link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

SUNDAY from 5-7p Eastern tune into Inhailer.com to hear me encourage everyone to watch the PBS documentary on Cincinnati’s King Records and its influence on indie music, like this song based on The Funky Drummer break, recorded there in 69 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSD1...

increasingly thinking the alt rock to alt right stuff is part of a larger project on the shift from taste as classically liberal "sensus communis" to the privatization of taste and the restructuring of vernacular white masculinity not around cool but avidity vs reactionary resilience

Check out this brand new book from Australian radio scholar Heather Anderson on Australia's legendary independent community radio station 4ZZZ - it's like the Oz version of my WOXY book! #4zzz link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

This new piece by @ericdharvey.com is so thoughtful and points to the fact that “indie” became, across the 2010s, an identity representing the “tasteful” individual subject, the neolib “subject of interests” par excellence. ericdharvey.substack.com/p/everything...

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

NOW, starting off with some Shriekback

So I'm listening to Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey album while reading the new 33 1/3 about it and jfc the transition from "H*zbollah" to "Land of Rape and Honey" hits a certain way in 2025, esp w everything happening in Chicago rn

TONIGHT 5-7p Eastern listen to me spin my Halloween show on Inhailer.com

So my takeaway here is nobody understands pickup notes anymore? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMxwLETU/

I work on a team based in NYC and London these next two weeks are always bonkers

hoo boy, here's a book I know will just make me angry when I read it, please philosophers stop using 'sound' and 'voice' as models for *anything*...I wrote a whole book why this often goes very very bad: www.sup.org/books/theory...

a while ago @annakornbluh.bsky.social asked what living philosophers were from & educated in the Midwest & that got me thinking about how unis like DePaul, NWern, Loyola, Purdue, Miami, SIU-Carbondale, Marquette have long histories of grad programs emphasizing pluralist 'minor' traditions.

Reporting from North America's main continental philosophy conference to say that existentialism is extremely back in style

SUNDAY from 5-7pm join me for my radio show ITS HER FACTORY on Inhailer.com. It's my HALLOWEEN SHOW, come listen to the station's resident goth/rivethead spin spooky tunes. And I'll rec an insightful book on goth by a grad of Walnut Hills HS.

This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.

SUNDAY from 5-7pm join me for my radio show ITS HER FACTORY on Inhailer.com. It's my HALLOWEEN SHOW, come listen to the station's resident goth/rivethead spin spooky tunes. And I'll rec an insightful book on goth by a grad of Walnut Hills HS.