About

Graham Johnson. BA fr Columbia University in American Studies. Some writing under the project name Suspended Reason.

Previously worked at Consortia and Are.na. Minor involvement in Gugg's Countryside exhibit. Manet > Monet; SMiLE > Sgt. Pepper's.

Interests: Aesthetics, post-rationalism (?), metacriticism, fashion, seasteading, literature, pop, the predictive or "Bayesian" brain, religion, pragmatism, Russian formalism, counter-signaling, Bourdieu, nostalgia, RCs, NBA, Random Cloud.

Recent projects:

• Working towards a theory of literary compression (in progress).
  Update: Early sketch here.


• Working towards a predictive processing model of aesthetics (research channel). Rough draft of speculative paper "A Bayesian hermeneutic," cowritten with Thomas Rutten, here.


• Developing a concept of critical proxies as initially sketched out in the final section of this essay. Update: Concept refurbished for "Intro to Cargocult," 11/16/16. Generally interested in ways heuristics/proxies (esp. associative heuristics) are used in taste judgments.

ex-Managing editor for the first U.S. undergraduate journal of art criticism (JAC).
ex-Managing editor of Rare Candy, a print and online music magazine.

@suspendedreason

As Wojnarowicz.

Spilled Reality.

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Informational doc here. Library of submissions.

January: How About A Trip to Italy?

February: La Vento

May: Vibe Theory

September: Porphyrogénnētos

November: Echos du silence (and context)

Other Projects

SRIG, a project with neural networks where pictures I take are replaced by algorithmically similar images.

Love + Mercy,one-off band with Caleb Oldham for HiFi Snock.

Dream Baby Dream, a 2014 radio station for WBAR.

HiFi Snock Uptown, an uptown, DIY music venue I helped start with Michael Blair, Canada Choate, Mabel Taylor, others in 2014.

Faux Pool, a semi-parodic semi-earnest webshop in its early stages.

Wikipedia Contributed Pages

Are.na

Troy Conrad Therrien

Venkatesh Rao

Faux Pool Newsletter

Now-comatose weekly newsletter with experimental computer artist Tim Goodwin and walking rock'n'roll encyclopedia/ArtForum fact-checker Canada Choate. We sent letters out every Monday at 4pm.

Faux Pool vol. 2: We Are the Ghosts in Our Machines

Faux Pool vol. 1: A Tenth of a Tear

timgrahamncanada, no. 27: Richard Prince, Clement Greenberg, Ryder Ripps

timgrahamncanada, no. 26: Conspicuous Outrage

timgrahamncanada, no. 25: worldview: intense form

Writing

Suspended Reason, July 19 2018

Suspended Reason, April 1 2018

Suspended Reason, March 27 2018

Suspended Reason, February 17 2018

Ribbonfarm, March 9 2017

Suspended Reason, Dec 23 2016

Suspended Reason, November 7 2016

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