Tag: Randall Collins

• Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 2

  Last time, on Suspended Reason…. Prophetic revelation involves for both the prophet himself and for his followers… a unified view of the world derived from a consciously integrated and meaningful attitude toward life. To the prophet, both the life of man and the world, both social and cosmic events, have a certain systematic and coherent…

  suspendedreason

  September 13, 2023

  Essays

  all communication is manipulation, disenchantment, emotional energy, enchantment, G.K. Chesterton, hyperstition, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lodge 49, magic, Max Weber, postrationalism, Randall Collins, strategic conceptualization, Thomas Pynchon

• 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