actual materiality of books or their digital equivalents

profits are to be made more upon dematerialised abstractions of money than upon the gritty materiality of ‘raw materials’ themselves, in ways qualitatively different from earlier transformations of resources into money

an ‘expansionary and portable extractive logic that permeates political and textual life’?

metaphorisation,

there is a danger that extractivist may become the adjective and epithet du jour. Along with longstanding invocations of neoliberal globalisation, ‘settler colonialism and extractive capitalism’ (to cite one recent expansionist account of extractivism) have now been added to an excoriating litany of exploitative badness – that is, the villainous forces shaping the past and present and deranging the future

how well do the geographical, politico-economic, and material-ecological relations named by extractivism translate beyond a Latin American context, or across time from the early phase of colonial conquest in the sixteenth century to the twenty-first-century present?

use (and abuse) of nature

many expressions of environmentalism, which as a founding principle look askance at the human use or disturbance of nonhuman nature

visions of a just human society that are premised upon and undergirded by the extraction of natural wealth would be extractivist at their very core

when does the act of resource extraction become a policy, an ideology, or a logic of extractivism?

observations about the possible limits and contradictions of such rhetorical moves, with a view toward forging a more rigorous and circumspect understanding

to read such ‘against-the-grain’ interpretations, once more against the grain

setting up hierarchies of value in which the privileged terms of one group become the subordinate terms of the other

In the case of speech and writing, for example, speech has been treated as the privileged, central member of the dyad, while writing has been considered inferior and marginal. Speech has been connected to the presence of the voice as the guarantee of the speaker’s meaning, while writing has been treated as a derivative phenomenon, as a mere supplement to the fullness of speech, as its defective transcription

something like an antimethod that will ask how current methods work by examining their enabling conditions

we write about music

In a world where religious fundamentalisms flourish alongside scientific rationality, where global capitalism coexists with ethnic rivalries, in a world of reflexive modernization, of the implosion of information, what can be said about music?

today

the ecofascist tendencies (even if unintentional) of white cis-heteronormative ableist ignorance in mainstream concerns about eco-anxious youth

the mainstream’s concern about eco-anxiety

the existential threat of climate change is posed to a certain way of inhabiting the planet that I call habit-ability

what Kyle Powys Whyte terms crisis epistemology.

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After three years, based on feedback from the Stanford community and the Office of Community Standards staff, the BJA voted to adopt the following amendment to the Student Conduct Penalty Code on May 25, 2016 that determines that the Office of Community Standards should use the following guidelines in determining sanctions for ERO agreements.

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Violations

and what the ramifications are for a student.

when

Ego must give way to the collective enterprise.

The right artist for opera embraces this tapestry, while the artist insisting on individual achievement will always struggle

too often pitted against each other by a system predicated on the achievement of the rugged individual

the company’s traditional and predominantly white audience were challenged by the score. Not so the Black members of the audience, many of whom reported attending an opera for the first time

New York City Opera premiere

An elite approach to opera demands that everyone approach the work from the same level and scolds anyone who “doesn’t get it”

Rather than expect education before the opera, I would see it as a sign of success if an audience member wants to learn more after the performance.

a deep experience of opera should not be predicated on any prior knowledge: of the art form, of a foreign language, of the work being performed

although they can afford tickets to the opera, the musicology and history degrees that seem a prerequisite make the experience feel out of reach

Even though supertitles are now the norm at most opera houses

I believe it’s the air of assumption, exuding from the opera house architecture, that attendees already belong to a certain class and a certain level of education.

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“Because nobody likes it, so the entitled people enjoy the fact that they have a differing opinion.”

“The Ed Sullivan Show” — which, in the estimation of The New York Times, “defined American taste” from 1948 to 1971

on his radio

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the art form is most exciting and viable when it is a subversive act

affirming authority in their work

opera always fares best when it goes against the grain

made without the consent of other collaborators

including graduate students

A remarkable film demonstrating how generative AI perceives the field of Ethnomusicology

there was a late addition

was contributed by a member of the collective in the hours before the event

that briefly used a controversial Palestinian phrase

No one in our collective, including the author of the film, had prior knowledge of the affects these words carry for the harmed individuals

the Indigenous graduate student-presenters

—and also what allegedly happened to Indigenous graduate student presenters after it was over.

the scholars’ experiences.

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Such hostility is in violation of SEM’s anti-harassment policy, and we deeply regret that it occurred.

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the event’s presumed focal point was blurred by an unexpected interpolation of visual and sonic references

You need to educate yourself.”

They

That colleague

quickly moved on from the Middle East

the presentation screen went black and displayed the controversial slogan for less than five seconds, then transitioned to similarly brief slides reading “Free Palestine” and “End Israeli Apartheid.”

it has never meant an advocacy for destroying Israel.

according to two professors who attended the event

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comfort/discomfort as important affective conditions for thinking

the concept of the “global intimate,” coined

connect the (dis)comforts experienced in relation to one’s home(s) to “the global,” this putatively all-encompassing, transcendental-spatial whole

wanting to maintain critical purchase

comfortable these modalities of inquiry were becoming, in their signposting and methodological expression, and the likelihood that they would just be integrated

Schenkerian Theory

I had never once run across the word soars (used as a plural noun) and couldn't deduce its meaning from context clues. Mildly ashamed at my complete unfamiliarity with what James seemed to be employing as a piece of standardly accepted music-analytical lingo, I googled the term, to discover that the only hits online were an obscure 2011 article that seems to have coined the term and a blog post by James.

I think it is my duty to absolve, preemptively, the reader

the insuperable difficulties I had in appreciating, simply at a ground-floor expository [End Page 126] and rhetorical level, what The Sonic Episteme is trying to say and why it is trying to say it.

I got off the boat early, or never quite got on it, in reading The Sonic Episteme

negative, omnibus term—a catch-all, garbage-pail category—for very nearly any at all recent, at all repugnant aspect of social reality, from automation to Zoom calls, and from alpha males to Omega ratios

she defines ‘woke’ as 1.) a reduction of each individual to the prism of marginalization; 2.) a focus upon inequalities of power rather than attempts to foster justice; and 3.) the conclusion that, because the historical record is rife with crimes against humanity, then all history is criminal

reproduction.

As a practice, music is positively obsessed with its media specificity