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Robin James

@robinjames.bsky.social
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editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 9h
seems 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'
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12h
This 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!)
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12h
There is some music scholar out there who wants to pitch me this book, surely
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 12h
agree 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.
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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."
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pete Rose spinning in his grave
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy birthday!
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICYMI
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Day After en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
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The Day After - Wikipedia
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These 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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s the regular life version of students asking questions that can be answered by reading the syllabus
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes! 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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like Sinker’s whole point in reading Blade Runner as about slavery is that the AI was not granted civil, legal, or moral personhood
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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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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey composers and music theorists, has anyone come up with a useful way to notate autotune yet (staff, graphic, or otherwise)?
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From 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
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 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...
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AI has being but it does not exist – an existential approach to the difference between humans and AI
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and 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
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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 · 04/10/2026
Some 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
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and 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
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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 · 03/10/2026
He studied w Jack Caputo at Nova
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At 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
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbh 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…
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SUNDAY 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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Post its mostly, a list of the turns/roads/lamdmarks
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh if you were there last week it was ColdWaves weekend. WaxTrax! And old rivetheads, also my people.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People at this venue understand personal space and navigating a crowd in a way Brooklyn just does not
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At church
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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...
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Slop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All 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
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CT 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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes especially for people whose first language isn’t English
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah 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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’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
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spell/grammar check
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Language correction, formatting; use must be disclosed, cannot be listed as an author.
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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 · 02/10/2026
Which is really to say the worst criticism is that which bloviates unreflectively from a position of power and privilege
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anything men like or dislike
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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.com
Slop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pateman’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.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is literally existentialism
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have seen one of the Trmp commercials and it is the campiest shit ever
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ed Kazarian @kazedkaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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...
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On Sexual Violence, Bullying, and Stigmatized Vulnerability
The 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…
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At the airport for a non-work trip for the first time in ????
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DePaul posted a Heidegger job, is Will retiring?
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