Matt Surch
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Government |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Policy |
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I'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. |
| Interests | Most 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 movies | The 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 music | From John Cage to Buck 65. Opera is in there. |
| Favorite books | The 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.

