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The political ontology of 'independence' in popular music
I’m writing something about the ontology of “independence” in popular music, and if you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you know it’s where I make my first drafts of whatever I’m writing. So this is rough and maybe a little...
"Rock Music," Anti-Poptimism, and Neoreactionary Masculine Resilience
May 7, 2026 Jacobin published a piece titled “Liberal Poptimists Tried to Kill Rock. They Failed” and one of the 2020’s “pop girlies” Charli XCX announced a new album and single titled “Rock Music.” Charli’s song takes the mocumentary tone...
AGAINST AFFECT: reason or reaction?
As someone who (1) has written a whole book about the structural conditions compelling people to perform spectacles of damage and vulnerability and their overcoming and (2) tends to think that the rise of Massumian affect theory in the 90s...
Aesthetic Taste in the AI era
As The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka has discussed in one of his recent columns, the AI bros are really into the idea of aesthetic taste. In the extreme information overload that generative AI provides, taste is the capacity to discern, and thus...
The End of Subjective Universality and the Privatization of Aesthetic Taste
In 2026, any take that uncritically treats “pop” as the low or mass culture term in a high/low or art/craft binary is a red herring designed to divert attention away from the fact that the political ontology that makes that aesthetic binary...
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Writer, editor, philosopher. Author of THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL, THE SONIC EPISTEME, & RESILIENCE and MELANCHOLY. Working on a book theorizing vibes, acquiring scholarly books in philosophy, music/sound/audio media, and interpersonal comm.
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