Welcome to LEXUS-NEXUS, a place for critical thinking on music and culture. This project began during my graduate studies in digital archives circa 2012 and took a hiatus following corporate reorganization of its hosting platform, as well as the demands on my time as I finished a PhD. For legal reasons, I would like to state that the title is a parody of the corporate entities that it references, created for non-commercial educational purposes, and thus qualifying as “fair use.”
Today I’m restarting the project on a webspace that I lease and manage myself, after watching a succession of free hosting platforms become progressively less useful over time. My previous thoughts remain available on Tumblr, Twitter, and Substack, as well as blogging about my professional activities on my main personal website.
My professional research activities have always had a subcultural streak– I wrote my dissertation on the history of psychedelic experience in computer software design– but the demands of a tenure-track academic career have gradually pushed me towards seeking broader social impact working on topics like detecting disinformation and accountability in AI. And yet I’ve never lost my interest in electronic music or underground rock. LEXUS-NEXUS is where I now intend to share my critical analyses of these topics, more like an open notebook than a polished publication.
