Tag: David Foster Wallace

• Text, Telos, and Ritual

  I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound To the memories of yesterday’s clouds I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound And now I’m set free I’m set free to find a new illusion — “I’m Set Free,” The Velvet Underground “As time goes on… the universe becomes more and more what experience has revealed,…

  suspendedreason

  October 11, 2016

  Essays

  Abraham Maslow, Andrew Barnes, Ann Shulgin, Aretha Franklin, Beethoven, classical music, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Herman Pleij, Jamie XX, John Dewey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Judith Butler, Lewis Mumford, literature, Luke Turner, Maggie Nelson, Mark Richardson, metamodernism, modernism, multi-armed bandit, narrative rationality, Nate Soares, New Sincerity, PiHKaL, pop, pop music, postmodernism, psychedelics, Ribbonfarm, ritual, Rutger Bregman, sacrament, Sarah Perry, Steven Pinker, Tao Lin, teleology, The Sublemon, The Velvet Underground, utopia, Venkatesh Rao

• How To Leave Town

  “I don’t think it’s possible to make art that makes sense to people if you don’t spend some time doing normal things,” Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo wrote earlier this week in response to an anonymous Tumblr fan question (echoing David Foster Wallace’s now-infamous quote to David Lipsky about treasuring his “normal-guyness”). To both Wallace and Toledo’s work, establishing…

  suspendedreason

  July 27, 2015

  Blog

  Brian Wilson, Car Seat Headrest, David Foster Wallace, music criticism, pop music, The Beach Boys, Will Toledo