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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 2h

Later this month I'll be at Rowan University in NJ to talk about slop, vibes, and my new book GOOD VIBES ONLY

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bc I am old this stuff gets more engagement on FB but I thought I’d repost here

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is some music scholar out there who wants to pitch me this book, surely

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seems like mainstream (US) analytic philosophy is coming around to aughts CCRU bad posthumanism without the important analysis of power central to say Afrotuturism

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Counterpoint: Leo has been articulating a robust answer it is just not from analytic philosophy of mind

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“This style of abstraction creates a profile that makes some individual preferences more likely and more accessible than others. Slop is a vector of private interest that privileges the interests of those already most aligned with power.”

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma & tbh if a central character has an HVAC vent for a head it’s a lost opportunity to use an REM cover that her than a NIN cover for the title sequence

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need to stop doing this haha

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a classic in popular music studies, there's also the riot grrrl manifesto

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And by uptown Avondale I mean both this and this maps.app.goo.gl/zZ527fEVG6Dc...

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

See that little red circle at the OH/KY/IN intersection? Basically I-275? yup.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Charli & Slayyyter’s recent songs don’t build climaxes, they create and shift vibes.” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/09/slop...

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This SUNDAY is my one year Inhailer-versary! My radio show ITS HER FACTORY is 1 year old. To celebrate I have tons of special indie tunes & the person who makes the highest donation to Inhailer’s fall fund drive during my show 9/6 gets a personalized signed copy of my WOXY book + stickers

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

30 years ago this week I started this class

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watched The Boys this weekend and clearly someone on staff had been to Butler County, OH sometime in the late 90s/2000s

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feeling extremely old while none of the Jeopardy contestants seem to be the three categories referencing XTC

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Arts labor is demonetized and feminine, betting is scalable and macho. Manosphere content creators have to be both hypermasculine on gender performance and turn their platforms into some sort of scam or MLM to masculinize structurally feminine cultural labor like content creation

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Norms are out we are governing lineages of property relations instead of

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Snuck this rant in the acknowledgements

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

First two pages are extremely me lol

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lassiez les chien temps roulez

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Girl KNOWS how to be an outsider in a way that doesn’t come with praise, and she uses her comfort in that role as a way to take creative risks. That’s what makes her cool.”

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I mean the history of Western philosophy has gotten a lot wrong but one thing it has gotten right is that acceptance of one's mortality and fallibility is like ground zero of being a functional self and member of society

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Technically the home for ethics scholarship is in philosophy departments and there are numerous people far to the right of this in tenure line jobs in philosophy in the US and Europe

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

TOMORROW JULY 19 from 5-7p Eastern you can hear me spin new & classic indie on Inhailer.com. On that date in 1993, Smashing Pumpkins released SIAMESE DREAM, tho WOXY listeners preferred the Bosstones, U2, and Matthew Sweet

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

QUBE, the early cable box from Columbus, OH

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Most women who have experience in academic philosophy can stop this cold, every debate me bro in a philosophy class has tried this on us

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In the PHL airport and saw this and the first thing I think of is ofc the TN fight song not Eye of the Tiger

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In the PHL airport and saw this and the first thing I think of is ofc the TN fight song not Eye of the Tiger

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Is it a surprise that now the extreme right has loudly claimed 90s alt rock as envisioned by airplay as theirs we have Olivia here retconning that grunge-centric vision and telling a new narrative that centers women

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Went back to reread the McCumber and whew is that report just history repeating itself

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is wild, in state tuition at Miami was 6k/ year 96-00, I turned out smart but not rich (maybe those are related)

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am reminded of Kara Keeling's argument that digital technologies co-opt techniques traditionally found in radical Black aesthetic practices (Queer Times, Black Futures, the chapter on Grace Jones)

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Its been ages since I worked on a journal article from scratch but here goes (I may even try to submit this to JAAC? Or maybe JCMS?)

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Yes, those are my peonies on the cover of the book, currently blooming peony on the right

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Watching the Ray’s Music Exchange scene again and it clicked? The Midwest approach to pop music is grounded in postwar Black dance genres not prewar blues.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

THIS WEEKEND!! It’s the most important holiday of the year, at least for me, the INDIE 500. Join me and the Inhailer crew as we count down the top 500 indie songs of all time. I have laps 212-198, which should air sometime Sunday around my usual 5-7p Eastern.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is hilarious bc this book has not even published yet lol

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