Tag: depressive ontology

• Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1

  Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […]  Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…

  suspendedreason

  September 11, 2023

  Essays

  all communication is manipulation, charisma, cultural relativism, depressive ontology, disenchantment, ecology of practice, enchantment, framing, G.K. Chesterton, Herman Melville, hyperstition, literature, Lodge 49, magic, Max Weber, panacea, pragmatism, Randall Collins, reflexivity, Roman Polanski, Sarah Perry, television, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, utopia, vibe, vibe theory

• Teenage v. Depressive Ontology

  Taken from Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher, esp. “No Longer the Pleasures: Joy Division,” and “K-Punk, or the Glampunk Art Pop Discontinuum.” On Teenage Ontology: Romanticism is the dressing-up of Teenage Ontology as an aesthetic cosmology. Teenage Ontology is governed by the conviction that what really matters is interiority: how you feel inside, and what…

  suspendedreason

  December 25, 2018

  Blog

  depressive ontology, glam, Joy Division, K-Punk, Mark Fisher, romanticism, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, teenage ontology