Robin James
@robinjames.bsky.social
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 Jezebel, Guardian, LARB, Real Life, etc. its-her-factory.com
I’ll be in DC the end of Feb for a conference and would love to book another talk or two for while I’m down there. I can talk vibes book stuff, alt rock to alt right stuff, or new stuff on bad taste and rw masculinity.
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I’ll be in DC the end of Feb for a conference and would love to book another talk or two for while I’m down there. I can talk vibes book stuff, alt rock to alt right stuff, or new stuff on bad taste and rw masculinity.
Should I write a philosophy and popular culture textbook
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Should I write a philosophy and popular culture textbook
With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.
Providence RI area people, join me and @dandipiero.bsky.social this Friday at 6pm at Symposium Books to hear us chat about BIG FEELINGS & THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL
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Dan DiPiero & Robin James discuss music at Symposium
Join us on Nov. 14th at 6pm as we host Dan DiPiero and Robin James in conversation to discuss queerness, feminism, and music!
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November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Providence RI area people, join me and @dandipiero.bsky.social this Friday at 6pm at Symposium Books to hear us chat about BIG FEELINGS & THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL
www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-dipier...
www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-dipier...
Made it back thankfully pretty easily from AMS, highlights included meeting several people IRL that I have only known digitally, including @matoswk.bsky.social and @usefulnoise.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Made it back thankfully pretty easily from AMS, highlights included meeting several people IRL that I have only known digitally, including @matoswk.bsky.social and @usefulnoise.bsky.social
I recommend reading Plato's five early dialogs - Socrates invented this 3000 years before we started calling it "sealioning"
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www.google.com/books/editio...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I recommend reading Plato's five early dialogs - Socrates invented this 3000 years before we started calling it "sealioning"
www.google.com/books/editio...
www.google.com/books/editio...
Reposting this on main re: AMS trying to dissolve the ethics committee bc it claimed it opened the org to legal liability. In corp the main role of the ethics office/r is to ensure compliance!
Speaking as an uh expert typically the ethics committee is also charged with compliance and ironically in the corp world is often little more than that
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposting this on main re: AMS trying to dissolve the ethics committee bc it claimed it opened the org to legal liability. In corp the main role of the ethics office/r is to ensure compliance!
TODAY
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops
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November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
TODAY
Man at AMS: Are you THAT Robin James?
Me: there are a lot of us.
Him: do you write about music?
Me: yes and there are a couple of us too.
Him: did you write a book in the 90s about cassettes?
Me: sir that Robin James is a man and British
Me: there are a lot of us.
Him: do you write about music?
Me: yes and there are a couple of us too.
Him: did you write a book in the 90s about cassettes?
Me: sir that Robin James is a man and British
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Man at AMS: Are you THAT Robin James?
Me: there are a lot of us.
Him: do you write about music?
Me: yes and there are a couple of us too.
Him: did you write a book in the 90s about cassettes?
Me: sir that Robin James is a man and British
Me: there are a lot of us.
Him: do you write about music?
Me: yes and there are a couple of us too.
Him: did you write a book in the 90s about cassettes?
Me: sir that Robin James is a man and British
My take on AMS drama is that the org is too big and the foundation/outreach/funding part should be spun off from the scholarly society and conference.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My take on AMS drama is that the org is too big and the foundation/outreach/funding part should be spun off from the scholarly society and conference.
Reposted by Robin James
for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...
Redirecting...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...
Thoughts and prayers for my MSP>CLT>BDL trip today
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thoughts and prayers for my MSP>CLT>BDL trip today
As someone who has been on the APA Eastern program cmte before I would suggest to AMS: de-prioritize preconstituted panels, instead let PC members put together 2-3 invited panels themselves. Lets you get innovative, underrepresented stuff in the program more easily.
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
As someone who has been on the APA Eastern program cmte before I would suggest to AMS: de-prioritize preconstituted panels, instead let PC members put together 2-3 invited panels themselves. Lets you get innovative, underrepresented stuff in the program more easily.
No small chance I may be stuck in CLT tomorrow night, may be getting up friends and family there if it’s for multiple days…
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
No small chance I may be stuck in CLT tomorrow night, may be getting up friends and family there if it’s for multiple days…
This attempts the same thing that “it’s 2025 and the industry has given up on genre but I’m still going to rant about how bad poptimism is” does - it dresses up manosphere misogyny in supposedly more erudite terms.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This attempts the same thing that “it’s 2025 and the industry has given up on genre but I’m still going to rant about how bad poptimism is” does - it dresses up manosphere misogyny in supposedly more erudite terms.
Great time to be away at a conference lol, thoughts and prayers to everyone at AMS trying to fly home later this weekend…
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great time to be away at a conference lol, thoughts and prayers to everyone at AMS trying to fly home later this weekend…
Reposted by Robin James
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops
Their performance of bad taste demonstrates their purported refusal to subordinate themselves to any sense of a shared society, like norms about what counts as good taste
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/08/were...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/08/were...
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Their performance of bad taste demonstrates their purported refusal to subordinate themselves to any sense of a shared society, like norms about what counts as good taste
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/08/were...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/08/were...
I appreciate the KLF reference
I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I appreciate the KLF reference
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com I'll be celebrating the upcoming birthdays next week of Wendy Carlos & Kathleen Hannah! I will play something off Switched On Bach and a set of classic indie dance tunes that use that Baroque arpeggiation to create their groovy bleeps and bloops
Working on the author marketing form for Good Vibes Only & I know we talk about the connection btw research and teaching but can we also talk about the connection btw research and publishing? Working in publishing makes me a better researcher, in a diff way than teaching did.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Working on the author marketing form for Good Vibes Only & I know we talk about the connection btw research and teaching but can we also talk about the connection btw research and publishing? Working in publishing makes me a better researcher, in a diff way than teaching did.
Box of Uncle Ben’s classic, cooked and spread in casserole dish. Fill dish w chopped broccoli, cauli, carrots. Make roux, add like 2-3 c milk, then stir in grated 8oz block of cheddar. Pour over casserole, top w panko. Cook 350 for 45. Dinner for 2 for the work week.
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Box of Uncle Ben’s classic, cooked and spread in casserole dish. Fill dish w chopped broccoli, cauli, carrots. Make roux, add like 2-3 c milk, then stir in grated 8oz block of cheddar. Pour over casserole, top w panko. Cook 350 for 45. Dinner for 2 for the work week.
In her 1993 “Whiteness As Property” Cheryl Harris showed how anti-affirmative action lawsuits made a new form of whiteness a property qua personal injury or “reverse discrimination”. It’s this now but amplified.
even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim
"at the transgender coffee shop"
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In her 1993 “Whiteness As Property” Cheryl Harris showed how anti-affirmative action lawsuits made a new form of whiteness a property qua personal injury or “reverse discrimination”. It’s this now but amplified.
“Please act like That Guy In Philosophy Class”™️
Somebody posted this prompt, which attempts to make ChatGPT responses less friendly and more critical.
Feels like a rich document for a science-and-technology-studies analysis.
Feels like a rich document for a science-and-technology-studies analysis.
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Please act like That Guy In Philosophy Class”™️