About

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

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

Interests: Post-rationalism (?), metacriticism, Trilling, Schmidhuber, 4chan, religion, pragmatism, Russian formalism, counter-signaling, sustainability, metamod, nostalgia, Weird Suns, RCs, NBA, Random Cloud.

Recent projects:

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


• Working towards a predictive processing model of aesthetics (research channel)


• Developing the concept of generic fitness, or generic "fit," as laid out in a post for Suspended Reason.


• 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.


• ex-Managing editor for the first U.S. undergraduate journal of art criticism (JAC).

ex-Managing editor for Rare Candy, a print and online music magazine dedicated to fostering underground music.

@suspendedreason

PDF Marketplace

Convert the old PDFs collecting dust on your hard drive into a form of currency.

Full informational document here. Library of submitted PDFs here.

January: How About A Trip to Italy?

February: La Vento

March: HSMem (available upon request)

(April PDF)

Random Projects

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

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.

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 send 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

Backgrounding Techniques in Cinema and Literature

Suspended Reason, February 17 2018

Ribbonfarm, March 9 2017

Suspended Reason, Dec 23 2016

Suspended Reason, November 7 2016

AdHoc, March 22 2016

Suspended Reason, July 2016

Suspended Reason, May 2016

Rare Candy Magazine, January 28 2016

The Columbia Review, January 7 2016

Rare Candy Magazine, November 22 2015

Rare Candy Magazine, August 31 2015

Rare Candy Magazine, April 7 2015

Conversations

Suspended Reason, April 5 2018

Suspended Reason, April 3 2018

Suspended Reason, December 30 2017

Rare Candy, May 1 2015

Friends

• AJ Stoughton
• Bodega Bay
• Canada Choate
• Chris Beiser
• CU Records
• Drew Austin

• Gabe Duquette
• Haley Thurston
• Hotel Concierge
• John Nerst
• Katie Giritlian
• Kevin Roark

• Mabel Taylor
• Miguel Gallego
• Mister Shane
• Mira Dayal
• Maurice Marion
• Sarah Perry

• Seb Choe
• Tim Goodwin
• tropical-labs
• Will Laird