Matthew Gilbert

Matthew Gilbert is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Stanford University. His research theorizes the role of sound, voice, and music in historical figurations of ‘the human,’ particularly––or at least currently––within the theo-colonial episteme of New Spain, through an examination of the role played by missionary ethnographies, music pedagogical treatises, early modern legal arguments, and biomedical practices in the emergence (and dissolution) of Man, a critique of  the remnants and reverberations of colonial discourse on humanism within the contemporary humanities, and a consideration of the potential for human sounds to disrupt necropolitical deployments of the climate apocalypse. He is learning to write affect and is particularly interested in scaring people who read his work. Boo!