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Matt Surch
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IndustryGovernment
OccupationPolicy
LocationOttawa, Ontario, Canada
IntroductionI'm a family man who loves to ride, a lot. Fortunately my family understands my passion and humours me. Naturally, I do my best to share this passion via conversion therapy.
InterestsMost facets of cycling: mtb, road (skinny tires, fat tires, gears, no gears, pavement, dirt), commuting, cyclocross, DH, Super-D. Philosophy, communication studies and cultural theory. In particular, philosophy of technology, somaeshtetics, environmental ethics, critique of rationalism, pre-socratic ethics.
Favorite moviesThe Bicycle Thief, Zatoichi, Last Night, The Tiger and the Snow, Night on Earth, The Triplets of Belleville, Bamboozled, Being John Malkovich, Youth Without Youth, Bottle Rocket...
Favorite musicFrom John Cage to Buck 65. Opera is in there.
Favorite booksThe Spell of the Sensuous (Abram), Questioning Technology (Feenberg), The History of Sexuality III (Foucault), Undoing Gender (Butler), Walden (Thoreau), Silent Spring (Carson), Performing Live (Shusterman), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (Connolly), When Species Meet (Haraway), Sexing the Body (Fausto-Sterling), Sand County Almanac (Leopold), Name of the Rose (Eco), Wicked (Maguire),

The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:

Umm, no, I save those creative juices for my daughter's entertainment alone.

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