When most people think that "little girls should be seen and not
heard," a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that's
not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren't supposed to be
virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream
back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they "Lean
In." Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women
overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded their
foremothers. Resilience discourse incites noisy damage, like
screams, so that it can be recycled for a profit. It turns the
crises posed by avant-garde noise, feminist critique, and black
aesthetics into opportunities for strengthening the vitality of
multi-racial white supremacist patriarchy (MRWaSP). Reading
contemporary pop music - Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Calvin Harris - with
and against political philosophers like Michel Foucault, feminists
like Patricia Hill Collins, and media theorists like Steven
Shaviro, /Resilience & Melancholy/ shows how resilience
discourse manifests in both pop music and in feminist politics. In
particular, it argues that resilient femininity is a post-feminist
strategy for producing post-race white supremacy. Resilience
discourse allows women to "Lean In" to MRWaSP privilege because
their overcoming and leaning-in actively produce blackness as
exception, as pathology, as death. The book also considers
alternatives to resilience found in the work of Beyonce, Rihanna,
and Atari Teenage Riot. Updating Freud, James calls these
pathological, diseased iterations of resilience "melancholy."
Melancholy makes resilience unprofitable, that is, incapable of
generating enough surplus value to keep MRWaSP capitalism healthy.
Investing in the things that resilience discourse renders
exceptional, melancholic siren songs like Rihanna's "Diamonds"
steer us off course, away from resilient "life" and into the death.
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