Here are the prezi slides for a small presentation I recently gave on the music journalist/theorist Kodwo Eshuns accounts of alien/future/posthuman/cyborg musics. It mostly consists of quotes from the introductory chapter of Eshuns book ‘More Brilliant than the Sun‘, spiced up with words from Simon Reynolds, K-Punk, Jacques Attali amongst others, as well as a [...]
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Various fragments on what sound can do
On the occasion of taking a class on the anthropology of sound I spent a little time brainstorming with the collective intelligence that is the Internet on various examples of different contexts in which sound is doing something. Sound can be shown to affect people physiologically. Here’s a (kind of strangely written) danish news article [...]
Movements and awarenesses
An ongoing inquiry: How our way of relating to (experiencing, perceiving, being involved with) the world, ourselves and one another is something that is being shaped, elaborated or produced through different practices we involve ourselves in. A potential (academic) starting point to think/explore from could be the human geographer Nigel Thrift’s article ‘Still life in [...]
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Tagged bodily practices, embodiment, knowledge, knowledges, nature, subjectivity, Thrift, time
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Reading with/against pleasure
A woman is sitting by a table with a book. She introduces herself, presents the book and starts reading aloud. As the reading gets along she starts having small twitches and jerks, at apparently arbitrary moments she displays half-suppressed smiles and every now and then she makes larger adjustments to the way she sits as [...]
Some thoughts on writing this blog
To some extend this post is within a genre that I generally thinks it’s best to avoid: The self-thematizing blogpost. It’s a classical and quite prevalent genre. Bloggers writing about being bloggers, about not blogging as much as they’d like to, about not knowing what to blog about, about what they imagine that they’ll blog [...]
Klubrummets etisk-politiske potentialer
For nyligt læste jeg lidt sporadisk i et interview med den elektroniske musikproducer David Letellier, som under navnet Kangding Ray har gjort sig kendt for relativt abstrakt lytteorienteret elektronisk musik, men på det sidste også har begået nogle produktioner der hælder mere i retning af en lidt mere kropsligt henvendende techno. Nogle dele af interviewet [...]
Rum, kultur og musik – nogle betragtninger om Roskilde Festival
Som mange andre havde jeg fornøjelsen af i sidste uge at opholde mig på den Roskilde Festival, jeg som teenager glorificerede, det meste af mine tyvere har holdt mig væk fra, men som jeg i år fik lejlighed til gennem et ok frivillig-job at genbesøge, tage del i og i samme ombæring få samlet lidt [...]
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Tagged elektronisk musik, geografi, koncerter, kultur, køn, musik, Roskilde Festival, rum, scener, seksualitet, socialitet, ungdom
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At få udvidet sin seksualitet – om Majas bliven-masochist
Selv om man tænker kroppen som noget fysisk og biologisk, behøver det ikke indbefatte at den også er fastlåst og determineret. Jeg vil her prøve at give en fremstilling af, hvordan et specifikt kropsligt-socialt møde anstifter en længerevarende transformation og udvidelse af en ung kvindes seksualitet og kropslighed. Materialet i det følgende stammer ligesom i [...]
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Tagged affekt, BDSM, Deleuze, Guattari, identitet, krop, masochisme, seksualitet, sex, sociologi, Spinoza, subjektivitet, subkultur, tilblivelse
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Nogle gode ting, jeg har læst på nettet det sidste stykke tid
I anledning af en legen med tanken om det potentielt frugtbare i at vi i stedet for at være så afsindigt meget på facebook begyndte at brug mere tid og energi på at læse, skrive og kommentere på blogs, og også lidt inspireret af en årsopsamling over musik jeg skrev på kinesis og af at [...]
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Tagged blogs, by, byrum, copyright, gaden, homoseksualitet, kopiering, køn, links, ontologi, poesi, seksualitet
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Test systems and learning
At the University of California Santa Cruz where I’m currently an exchange student I’ve encountered one aspect of the organization of university life that has been standing out to me as being remarkably far from my conception of what higher-level education entails: The way the grading and test system for some undergraduate classes is designed [...]