BOOK CHAPTERS
Recent work includes a short history of colonial time; the question concerning musical temporality; a critique of affect and assemblage theory; the dialectics of intellectual property in a global frame; and the political economy of streaming media.
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- Temporalities—on the temporal antinomies of the colonial period, including the philosophy of time, theories of musical time, and the material history of time
- Executing Machine – Deleuze, Boulez,and the Politics of Desire–on the limits of affect and assemblage theory, with Boulez as central referent
- Alchemies of Sanctioned Value—on legal modes of economic valuation – from the dialectics of DRM to global geographies of exclusion – for digital music
- In Divisible Mobility: Music in an Age of Cloud Computing–on the political economy of music production, with reference to digital infrastructure
- Luciano Berio’s Coro–on a hidden genealogy of trans-disciplinary ideas, beginning with non-western instrumental technique
- Enforced Deterritorialization; or the Trouble with Musical Politics–argues that our century has become more Boulezian than Deleuzian
- Whose White Man Sleeps?—on aesthetics and politics in the music of Volans
- Double Voices of Musical Censorship After 9/11–on the paradoxical dialectics of censorship
- Approaching the Silence of Patterns: The Music of Michael Blake–a sketch of Blake’s compositional aesthetics
- Between African Ritual and European Romanticism–a sketch of Bongani Ndodana’s compositional aesthetics
- The Globalization of South African Art Music–on art music in the late years of apartheid
- Music, Corporate Power, and the Age of Unending War–on the relevance of Adorno to music production in the early 21st century
- The Form is/in the Function: Situating the African Keyboard Music of Kevin Volans–on the political stakes of musical form
- In Memory of a Receding Dialectic–on autonomy in modernist musical aesthetics
- Art Music in a Cross-Cultural Context–on African art music of the 20th century
- The Return of the Aesthetic–on musical formalism and its place in political critique
- Feminine/Feminist: In Quest of Names with No Experiences (Yet)–on dis/connections between Boretz and Hegel
- A/Symmetrical Reading of Inversion in fin-de-siècle Music, Musicology and Sexology–on the concept of inversional symmetry