Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 9hseems like a good occasion to remember that Babbitt compares what he wants for music theory to analytic philosophy in "Who Cares?", the Vandy/WashU authors all met in the most elite analytic department (NYU), its all revamping decades old institutional alliances against 'cultural marxism' 020
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12hThis is a good list, tho I would say Nietzsche is actually critiquing rather than endorsing reaction (tho he is certainly misread as doing something other than he is saying!) 030
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12hThere is some music scholar out there who wants to pitch me this book, surely 0102
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12hagree with all this, including the fact that mainstream notions of consent frame it as a matter of private property in person (consent as accent to otherwise impermissible trespass), and I think private property is a bad model for social relations. 010
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"“Ordinary” and “Choosin Texas” ooze white cisheterosexuaity, aligning these songs with the private interests of the ruling classes. It is this broader alignment...that allows Warren’s and Langley’s songs to scale in ways 24KGoldn and Gaga/Mars cannot." 030
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Day After en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...en.wikipedia.orgThe Day After - Wikipedia 4170
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026These days AI is the un-asked-for U2 album on your new iPhone, no matter what you think of it or if you are trying to avoid it it’s been put there and a politics of purity is just misrepresentation. The privilege of thinking one opts out when it is forced on min wage workers/job applicants. 0133
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s the regular life version of students asking questions that can be answered by reading the syllabus 051
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes! Not making it a matter of individual abstinence or responsibility but seeing at the system level. Like yes there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but also I am not independently wealthy enough to not work so…I have a job. 040
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like Sinker’s whole point in reading Blade Runner as about slavery is that the AI was not granted civil, legal, or moral personhood 010
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Seems like mainstream (US) analytic philosophy is coming around to aughts CCRU bad posthumanism without the important analysis of power central to say Afrotuturism 191
Reposted by Robin JamesWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hey composers and music theorists, has anyone come up with a useful way to notate autotune yet (staff, graphic, or otherwise)? 2147
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026From a strictly existentialist perspective, the attempt to find an objective answer to what is ultimately a moral question is quintessentially an example of bad faith 040
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The AI consciousness question attempts to find an objective answer to a question that is ultimately a political question of moral obligation www.its-her-factory.com/2025/12/ai-h...its-her-factory.comAI has being but it does not exist – an existential approach to the difference between humans and AI 273
Reposted by Robin JamesRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026and to be clear I don't fully agree with the pope on this (ie on the metaphysical/theistic point), just feels like for the last 75 years and esp in the US the Catholic philosophers and the existentialists have been allied against the same military industrial complex affiliated utilitarians 142
Reposted by Robin JamesRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Counterpoint: Leo has been articulating a robust answer it is just not from analytic philosophy of mind 3124
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Some TikTok influencer said Bavaria is the Texas of Germany and I’m sorry but it is the Cincinnati of Germany, the German Catholics are not in Texas but they are in Cincy 0100
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026and to be clear I don't fully agree with the pope on this (ie on the metaphysical/theistic point), just feels like for the last 75 years and esp in the US the Catholic philosophers and the existentialists have been allied against the same military industrial complex affiliated utilitarians 142
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Counterpoint: Leo has been articulating a robust answer it is just not from analytic philosophy of mind 3124
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At an institutional level the Pope vs TESCREAL scene we have today is an update to the old continental/analytic split, with the phenomenologists on one side and the utilitarians on the other 3446
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tbh Catholic phenomenology had a renaissance in the 2000s/2010s so it is kind of no surprise that the Pope has a more robust philosophical account of AI than tech bros do, sounds like he is working from that tradition… 15310
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern join me on Inhailer.com for new & classic indie. This week I’ll take a deep dive into the work of Neneh Cherry.inhailer.comInhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie MusicInhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU. 011
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Post its mostly, a list of the turns/roads/lamdmarks 030
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oh if you were there last week it was ColdWaves weekend. WaxTrax! And old rivetheads, also my people. 110
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People at this venue understand personal space and navigating a crowd in a way Brooklyn just does not 160
Reposted by Robin JamesRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“slop assumes a different kind of relationship between general and particular than is assumed in most of the political philosophy grounding US law” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/10/slop...its-her-factory.comSlop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide 198
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026All of the albums I grew up with are turning 50 at the same time I am, still want to do a PopCon panel on punk/post-punk and xennials at their semicentennial 170
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CT is in some ways the perfect text for this era bc the lyrics are about someone choosing to direct their center of attention elsewhere & the video instructs us to hear it as background music. 010
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes especially for people whose first language isn’t English 150
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah at this point I don’t know if there would be any time saved eg in using ai to do a lit review bc you would have to check it with a fine-toothed comb for errors, bias in citations, etc. same w doing any sort of analysis like you suggest. 250
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’d also say that in my experience the bad uses of AI are typically symptoms of broader issues with poor submissions that eg don’t really have an argument or substance 130
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Language correction, formatting; use must be disclosed, cannot be listed as an author. 2130
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.” 001
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Which is really to say the worst criticism is that which bloviates unreflectively from a position of power and privilege 080
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“slop assumes a different kind of relationship between general and particular than is assumed in most of the political philosophy grounding US law” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/10/slop...its-her-factory.comSlop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide 198
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pateman’s THE SEXUAL CONTRACT (1988) argues that the right to (sexual & other) property in other people’s bodies is literally what patriarchy is, exercising the right to transgress w/o consent is what grants one masculine status. 050
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have seen one of the Trmp commercials and it is the campiest shit ever 130
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.instagram.com/reel/Dd8Ey0H...instagram.cominhailerradio on Instagram: "An algorithm can repeat what you already like. A DJ can surprise you. Join IN to the future of music discovery and keep it human wi…"An algorithm can repeat what you already like. A DJ can surprise you. Join IN to the future of music discovery and keep it human with us.With 4 days left, we need all you got.#inhailerradio #independentmusic #indieradio #musicdiscovery 021
Reposted by Robin JamesEd Kazarian @kazedkaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote a thing. "So given all this, what would it take to ‘teach men not to rape?’ It might sound flip to say ‘dismantle the patriarchy,’ but it’s also strictly correct. ... darkprecursor.net/2026/09/30/o...darkprecursor.netOn Sexual Violence, Bullying, and Stigmatized VulnerabilityThe Cornell case has provided a reminder that police and juridical agencies are pretty ineffective at preventing sexual assault and at holding people accountable for it. One common response has bee… 131
Reposted by Robin JamesCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes. 025877
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026At the airport for a non-work trip for the first time in ???? 031