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Reading Macroanalysis 6.1: Theme–Dogs, Gold, Slavery, and Awakening

Chapter 8 of Macroanalysis is about “Theme.” Jockers uses topic analysis to investigate the occurrence of 500 ‘themes’ in a corpus of 3,346 19th-century British... Read more

The 19 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Everyone Poops: Graffiti on the Psychoanalytic Tip

Take a quick look at this photo and then close your eyes and think about it a bit: I’m guessing that your overall impression is that it’s a mess, just a lot of... Read more

The 16 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Reading Macroanalysis 5: An Interlude on Scale: Micro, Meso, and Macro

Before moving on to the last two major chapters, “Theme” (8), and “Influence” (9), I want to pause a bit and think about scale as I discussed it Toward a... Read more

The 15 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Scientific Metaphysics & Uncertainty

There is, among a certain group of scientists, a shrill certitude about science which leads to overconfident proclamations on matters of philosophy (and by... Read more

The 07 August 2014 by Cris
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Reading Macroanalysis 6.2: Theme, Moby Dick in the Context of Literary Culture

In this post, which is a long one, I use two books to investigate Jockers’ themes, and vice versa. One of the books is a classic of fairly traditional, at... Read more

The 21 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Reading Macroanalysis 7: Influence, Or the Evolving Dynamic Integrity of the...

While I do intend to write two more posts (at least) on thematic analysis, yesterday’s effort burned me out temporarily. So today’s post is a somewhat shorter... Read more

The 20 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Reading Macroanalysis 6.4: Themes and How They Evolve Over Time

Note: This may be the most important post in the series. But it’s a long way through, 6000 words or so. Fortunately, there are a lot of illustrations, and much... Read more

The 27 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Friday Fotos: Shaky Cam and Free Light

This past week I’ve been experimenting with my “shaky cam” technique: point the camera, start shaking it, and snap the photo. Here’s one of the photos that... Read more

The 01 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Jersey City: Past, Present, Future

This photograph represents a bit of Jersey City as it is now. Well, not exactly now, the moment you’re viewing it. But, loosly speaking, the present time. The... Read more

The 18 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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Reading Macroanalysis 6.3: DOGS and BIRDS, Or, the Hermeneutics of Screwing...

I started exploring Jockers’ 500 themes in earnest after I’d spotted this graph, which depicts the occurrence of the DOGS topic by gender over time: I saw that... Read more

The 23 August 2014 by Bbenzon
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