Tag: subcultures

• A Conversation With Sarah Perry

  Sarah Perry is a contributing editor at Ribbonfarm, and the author of Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide (Nine-Banded Books, 2014). Perry occupies a Gertrude Stein-esque role in the intellectual community of post-rationalism, helping bring people together into a salon-like digital space while also producing vitally important work of her own. Perry’s writing has dealt with issues ranging from…

  suspendedreason

  December 30, 2016

  Conversations

  Abraham Maslow, architecture, Baumeister, Borges, Christopher Alexander, consciousness, conspiracy theories, flow, Gwern, identity, insight porn, Julian Jaynes, Maggie Nelson, mess, NRx, pattern-matching, Philippe Rochat, post-ritual, rationalism, Ribbonfarm, ritual, Room 237, Sarah Perry, signaling, Steven Pinker, subcultures, TS Eliot

• Art As Engineering

  A Conversation with Gabriel Duquette and The Sublemon Gabriel Duquette is a co-founder of Liposuction (tagline “aesthetics without all the fat”). He started the site with The Sublemon, who studied art at Yale before contributing to Carcinistion and Ribbonfarm. Both are interested primarily in “retro-engineering” and applying “epistemic hygiene” to matters of taste and aesthetics.…

  suspendedreason

  May 14, 2016

  Conversations

  art as engineering, bandwidth, chords, compression, cultural fragmentation, formalism, Gabriel Duquette, Jürgen Schmidhuber, maps, Ribbonfarm, Sarah Perry, subcultures, The Sublemon, visual art