Month: July 2020

• Character & World

  

  suspendedreason

  July 22, 2020

  Diagrams

  literature, world-building

• The Dark Miracle of Optics

  Epistemic status: no idea how original any of this is; it just connects a lot of nodes in my brain. I’ve been told there’s a real debt to Robert Trivers, which I hope to educate myself on shortly. I may just be reinventing signal theory. Alternate titles: The Public-Private Information Gap Rules Everything Around Me […]

  suspendedreason

  July 10, 2020

  Essays

  bullshit, gamification, generalized reading, institutional theory, Jean Baudrillard, mimicry, opticratics, optics, signaling, signaling theory, simulacra, strategic interaction, The Wire, Zvi Mowshowitz

• Institutional Myth in Contemporary Art

  I’ve spent a lot of time in & around the New York visual art scene the past few years, and it’s been a very strange & uncanny & informative experience. A lot of the preference falsification and undead prestige cultures of, say, academia, or science, or politics are in play, but here the emperor can […]

  suspendedreason

  July 10, 2020

  Essays

  ambiguity, illusio, institutional theory, Janet Malcolm, Pierre Bourdieu, sacredness, Sarah Perry, visual art