Tag: Venkatesh Rao

• Origins of “Future Nausea”

  1966, Susan Sontag, “Anthropologist as Hero” in Against Interpretation: “The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.” (also, 1999, William Gibson, No Maps for These Territories, 15:00 in: “I think we all have…

  suspendedreason

  March 2, 2018

  Blog

  future nauseous, Susan Sontag, Venkatesh Rao

• 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