New Article

[blacksquirrel]

For the last year or more I've been working on a crazy article comparing Lady Gaga to the crash in the derivatives market. Thanks to many of you who read drafts and helped translate what makes sense in my brain to something that would make sense on the page, it's now been published in the peer-reviewed, but free and open academic journal NECSUS.

My article is available here: MP3s, Rebundled Debt, and Performative Economics: Deferral, derivatives, and digital commodity fetishism in Lady Gaga’s spectacle of excess

Here is the whole Autumn issue on Tangibility

I welcome and comments, questions and critiques here or by e-mail.

Comments

[arallara]

Oh yay, it's finished and published! Looking forward to reading it, and I will do my best to write you after, but you know how that goes for me. :)

[sinensis]

It's really good--that's a fascinating set of parallels that you've uncovered, and I think your description of the contradictions/tensions in Gaga's work is excellent. Thanks for posting the link!