AboutGraham 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:
* PDF MarketplaceConvert 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? March: HSMem (available upon request) * Other ProjectsSuspended 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. Wikipedia Contributed Pages 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 |
WritingBackgrounding Techniques in Cinema and Literature Suspended Reason, February 17 2018 "Another Green World" Ribbonfarm, March 9 2017 Post-Ritual Space: Berghain Suspended Reason, Dec 23 2016 Ulysses, Wilde, and a Theory of Literary Compression Suspended Reason, November 7 2016 AdHoc Issue 11 (copy editor) AdHoc, March 22 2016 Generic Fitness Suspended Reason, July 2016 Every Little Star Suspended Reason, May 2016 Regarding Rockism Parts Two & Three: The Rise of Poptimism and The New Rockism Rare Candy Magazine, January 28 2016 Regarding Rockism Part One: Black Truths and Noble Savages Rare Candy Magazine, November 22 2015 Bodega Bay: Our Brand Could Be Your Life Rare Candy Magazine, August 31 2015 Miguel Gallego: Every Dog Has Zir Day Rare Candy Magazine, April 7 2015 * ConversationsInterview with A D Jameson, part II Suspended Reason, April 5 2018 Interview with A D Jameson Part I Suspended Reason, April 3 2018 Interview with Sarah Perry Suspended Reason, December 30 2017 Interview with Bodega Bay Rare Candy, May 1 2015 |
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I'm also currently running a digital roundtable series for the Are.na blog, focusing on the state and future of the Web. Interviewees include Drew Austin of Kneeling Bus, sociologist Jenny L. Davis of ANU, and Grant Wythoff, Visiting Fellow at Penn State University.