While I have your attention: now that writing is no longer something my day job pays me to do, Iโve decided to keep the newsletter free but set upย a Kofi tip jarย so that those who would like to leave a...
I had the fortune of attending the Scholar Session for Elaine Miller at the 2022 SPEP (well, at least most of itโI had to duck out for a meeting before the discussion got going). Scholar Sessions are sessions focused on...
Itโs SPEP (Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy) week, and itโs my 20th (more or less) SPEPโI gave my first SPEP paper in 2002 at the meeting in Chicago. Below is the paper Iโm going to read this week in...
Peer reviewing is a common and essential part of everyday scholarly labor. But like many day-to-day academic activities, graduate programs rarely teach students how to be an effective peer reviewer. Itโs mostly something you learn by inference as you read...
When I was growing up, my hometown was the epicenter of three moral panics about obscene sex that snowballed to the national stage: two grew so big they went to trial and became national media spectacles and one led to...
As many of you know I wrote a book on 97X WOXYโitโs all going through copy editing right now and should hopefully be out in the world as a printed Thing in spring 2023. In the meantime, however, I thought...
itโs the first draft of the introduction to the central chapter of my vibes book For decades, various counter- and sub-cultures used the term โvibe(s)โ to describe what made them different from the mainstream. From hippies and their โgood vibrationsโ...
The week of July 20, 2022, the US Supreme Court released a series of decisions about religious liberty, gun rights, and abortion rights that significantly reversed established precedent. The court ruled that (1) itโs an infringement on the free exercise...
As I argued in my April 2022 essay in Real Life, norms are becoming less central to the patriarchal racial capitalist governance of inequality generally and sexuality in particular. This waning salience of norms is rooted in a shift in...
I am excited to announce that I am joining Palgrave Macmillan as Acquisitions Editor for Philosophy and Media & Cultural Studies. Iโm looking forward to using my expertise in and passion for both these fields to help scholars publish impactful...