Tag: The Sublemon

• Re-engineering “taste”

  One way I’ve found helpful to think about “culture,” at a more manageable scale, is through the metaphor of an unending variety show, with many theaters and stages (think music festivals—GovBall, Coachella). This neverending show presents a class of problems to any audience member attempting to grok an act, or to any act attempting to…

  suspendedreason

  June 5, 2020

  Blog

  aesthetics, chords, conceptual engineering, fashion, Gabe Duquette, John Dewey, maps, Peli Grietzer, poetry, The Sublemon, visual art

• Ulysses, Wilde, and a Theory of Literary Compression

  “He looked at the cattle, blurred in silver heat. Silvered powdered olive trees. Quiet long days: pruning ripening. Olives are packed in jars, eh? I have a few left from Andrews… A cloud began to cover the sun wholly slowly wholly. Grey. Far. No, not like that. A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead…

  suspendedreason

  November 21, 2016

  Essays

  compression, James Joyce, Jürgen Schmidhuber, literary theory, literature, The Sublemon, Ulysses

• 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

• 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