Sonic Topographies of the South

Sonic Topographies of the South: Rural Futurity as Resonance and Dissonance One of my earliest sonic memories is of the … More

Signs and Sensibility: On the Saturation Machine

Yet another seminar paper on Derrida, this one from Spring 2016. “For not all the parts of a thought can … More

The Duty to Listen

Another old unpublished paper, this one from Spring 2015. Though I readily acknowledge the problematic nature of wasting any more … More

“But who, we?” Derrida’s Ends of Man

This short text was written in December 2005, as an end of term paper for an undergraduate philosophy course at … More

CENSOR

Q. and not U. (or, Conspiracy Means To Breathe Together) a plunderphonic radio play https://files.cargocollective.com/c1063507/qandnotu.mp3 Presented as part of Disinformation … More

The Real Cost of Austerity

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought the economic failures of austerity politics into stark relief. It may very … More

Comments on Rock

Comments on Rock Luciano Berio One evening, many years ago (maybe 15), in the house of Roberto Leydi, I heard … More

Significant Scores

“Significant scores” (2008) Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Napolitano Translated by Joseph Sannicandro “The musical instrument is a machine useful to man. But … More

The Pleasure of Emptiness

“John Cage, or, the Pleasure of Emptiness” (1977) Roberto Calasso Translated by Joseph Sannicandro For almost twenty years I have … More

Queer Noise

Sam Galloway and I co-wrote an article entitled “Queer Noise: Sounding the Body of Historical Trauma,” which was including in … More