Tag: TS Eliot

• 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

• 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