Tag: Mark Richardson

• 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

• Memory of Lovers

  

  One of my favorite pieces of Mark Richardson’s writing is his 2012 essay “I Wanna Live: Two Songs About Freedom” for the now-dead column Resonant Frequency. In it, he waxes eloquent on the two-chord song, especially Bowie’s “Heroes,” Cat Power’s “Nothin But Time,” and LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”: [There] is something especially powerful about music with this harmonic…

  suspendedreason

  August 19, 2016

  Blog

  Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, David Bowie, dopamine, Jenny Davidson, LCD Soundsystem, Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, pop, pop music

• Every Little Star

    I. I filled in a long-standing gap in my cultural knowledge recently and watched Lynch’s 2001 noir masterpiece Mulholland Drive. That’s the sensation, right? Where listening to records or watching films in an era of unprecedented access begins to feel a bit like doing homework. Except Mulholland Drive is, itself, an almost unprecedently interesting film, one capable of…

  suspendedreason

  May 31, 2016

  Essays

  A D Jameson, Blondie, Christopher Owens, cultural consumption, David Lynch, familiarity, innovation, Linda Scott, Mark Richardson, Melissa George, Mulholland Drive, nostalgia, originality, pop music, Simon Reynolds, transgression, TS Eliot, variation