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
Come celebrate Black Iconoclasm’s two book awards at NCA, including the 2025 NCA Critical & Cultural Division book prize! That Thursday 4-5pm in the Palgrave booth in the book exhibit.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Come celebrate Black Iconoclasm’s two book awards at NCA, including the 2025 NCA Critical & Cultural Division book prize! That Thursday 4-5pm in the Palgrave booth in the book exhibit.
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.
Had some EBM, Prince’s Batdance up shortly
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Had some EBM, Prince’s Batdance up shortly
TONIGHT 5-7p Eastern listen to me spin my Halloween show on Inhailer.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
TONIGHT 5-7p Eastern listen to me spin my Halloween show on Inhailer.com
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
I have a Halloween party next weekend & I'm thinking of getting this Tshirt and going as a ChatGPT output
October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have a Halloween party next weekend & I'm thinking of getting this Tshirt and going as a ChatGPT output
This Sunday from 5-7p eastern at Inhailer.com I’ll take us back to 2005 to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary on the 15th by consulting with my wedding DJ, pictured below, about what indie fans were really listening to back then - tune in for some forgotten bangers!
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This Sunday from 5-7p eastern at Inhailer.com I’ll take us back to 2005 to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary on the 15th by consulting with my wedding DJ, pictured below, about what indie fans were really listening to back then - tune in for some forgotten bangers!
Tbh I don’t get the whole (mostly British) wing of haunty-Marxists, even wrote a thing about it in this months The Wire
October 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Tbh I don’t get the whole (mostly British) wing of haunty-Marxists, even wrote a thing about it in this months The Wire
Um, didn't Depeche Mode write a song about this?
October 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Um, didn't Depeche Mode write a song about this?
Oh, wait, he does realize it
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Oh, wait, he does realize it
This is the alt-right “I’m just being ironic” in terms that attempt to be more erudite
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is the alt-right “I’m just being ironic” in terms that attempt to be more erudite
This idea that the point of scholarly - or even philosophical - research is to seek truth through agonistic debate is something PHILOSOPHERS rejected about 10 years ago
sparked by the Feminist Philosophers blog asking “maybe the agonistic debate culture is an equity problem?”
sparked by the Feminist Philosophers blog asking “maybe the agonistic debate culture is an equity problem?”
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This idea that the point of scholarly - or even philosophical - research is to seek truth through agonistic debate is something PHILOSOPHERS rejected about 10 years ago
sparked by the Feminist Philosophers blog asking “maybe the agonistic debate culture is an equity problem?”
sparked by the Feminist Philosophers blog asking “maybe the agonistic debate culture is an equity problem?”
Rhetoricians! Are you teaching an intro to rhetorical studies/rhetorical criticism class in the Spring term and you'd like a new keywords-style textbook with examples from (mostly) your undergrads' lifetime? Luke Winslow's KEY CONCEPTS IN 21st C RHETORIC will be out by the end of the year!
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Rhetoricians! Are you teaching an intro to rhetorical studies/rhetorical criticism class in the Spring term and you'd like a new keywords-style textbook with examples from (mostly) your undergrads' lifetime? Luke Winslow's KEY CONCEPTS IN 21st C RHETORIC will be out by the end of the year!
This Sunday 5-7p Eastern I’m back on Inhailer.com with an episode of ITS HER FACTORY that spends the first hour celebrating next week’s ColdWaves festival with tons of industrial music, including a twofer of Trent. Here he is in my favorite ever pic of him:
September 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This Sunday 5-7p Eastern I’m back on Inhailer.com with an episode of ITS HER FACTORY that spends the first hour celebrating next week’s ColdWaves festival with tons of industrial music, including a twofer of Trent. Here he is in my favorite ever pic of him:
interesting but not surprising
September 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
interesting but not surprising
no data, just vibes as political epistemology right at the same time AI is redefining 'intelligence' as "useful hallucination" - it's the same underlying idea
September 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
no data, just vibes as political epistemology right at the same time AI is redefining 'intelligence' as "useful hallucination" - it's the same underlying idea
these three threads where traditionally public things flip private – the end of bourgeois sensus communis in favor of technocratic individual skill; masculinity as anti-feminist injury;race/gender/sexual exclusion as private individual and family responsibility – created the situation we have today
September 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
these three threads where traditionally public things flip private – the end of bourgeois sensus communis in favor of technocratic individual skill; masculinity as anti-feminist injury;race/gender/sexual exclusion as private individual and family responsibility – created the situation we have today
Actually this fact is the organizing principle for this book: each 96 phenomenon is a major node in three interlocking trajectories that today have right wing influencer bros bragging about their tacky paintings and love of Nickleback
August 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Actually this fact is the organizing principle for this book: each 96 phenomenon is a major node in three interlocking trajectories that today have right wing influencer bros bragging about their tacky paintings and love of Nickleback
(Why do I keep doing this to myself lol)
August 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
(Why do I keep doing this to myself lol)
“Analytic philosophy is in fact a tool of neoliberal governmentality”
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August 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Analytic philosophy is in fact a tool of neoliberal governmentality”
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