Bbenzon
Description
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
MY BLOGS
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7356 )
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Fleabag, I’m Not Feeling It [Media Notes 19]
I’ve been hearing good things about this Amazon series, Fleabag. So I’ve decided to watch it. I’m two episodes into the first season and it’s not pulling me... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Parallax Views [almost], Hoboken to Manhattan
Posted on 21 November 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Three Against Two: Splitting the Mind [augmented with New Material]
I'm bumping this to the top of the queue with the addition of a tweet linking to a study of hemispheric timing (see last two sections below, Two Hemispheres,... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Empirical Study of Chills in Response to Mages, Videos, Music Videos, Texts and...
Happy to share #openaccess research on aesthetic chills in #PLOSONE, suggesting that chills could refer to a collection of distinct experiences, linked to... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Long-term Evolution of Musical Styles
Another new article on the cultural evolution of music was just published #MusicScience @CulturalEvolSochttps://t.co/kFVkmoUISD — Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage)... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Small Balcony, with Ornamental Lighting, Shot at Night in Hoboken, with...
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Posted on 20 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yes, We’ve Made Progress, but Not Without Pain [Progress Studies]
Many humanists wince at the mere thought of progress studies because it conjures up ethnocentric and presentist visions of history in which the current era and... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Where Are Memes? [Again]
I’d originally posted this on July 24, 2010. I’m thinking about these things again so I’m reposting it along with comments inserted in italics and flush... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Progress Studies Progresses
Tyler Cowen has announced the first cohort of nine grants under his initiative for progress studies. Here's Cowen's original announcement that he would be... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Hallucinated City: What's the Deal with Green?
Posted on 19 November 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Why Do We Need to Talk of Cultural Evolution, Specifically, Rather Than of...
I’ve posted about this before, e.g. A short note on why it is important to conceive of culture as giving rise to an evolutionary process. And I continue to thin... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cultural Analytics and Neuroscience
Culture analytics version:No, nobody’s tried that.Nope, no that would be really cool.Huh! I wonder what would happen.Hasn’t been done!Super interesting,... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Chinese Ghost Stories
Replug: As tales of demons, ghosts, and the supernatural are exorcized from China’s mainstream media, the country’s classical horror stories still have the... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Impeachment and the Implosion of Liberalism
One of the better commentaries on impeachment: “With public institutions dysfunctional and liberal democracy hollowed out, liberalism.. Read more
Posted on 18 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why is Trinidad Such Fertile Ground for the Islamic State?
Simon Cottee, Trinidad's Islamic State Problems, Lawfare, November 17, 2019. In November 2013 Shane Crawford and two other men pulled off a double murder in a... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Different Teams Analyze the Same Neuroimaging Results in Different Ways
Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Felix Holzmeister, Colin Camerer, et al., Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, bioRXiv, Nov. 15,... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Purple Sky Times Three [but No Rain]
Posted on 17 November 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Sleep Fallacies
Alexey Guzey critiques Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep (2017). In the first chapter of Why We Sleep, Walker: completely misrepresents the relationship between slee... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Philologists in Space: Forbidden Planet [Media Notes 18]
I watched Forbidden Planet last night on Netflix, most of it anyhow. I’d seen it as a child when it first came out back in 1956. Read more
Posted on 16 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Interactive Television in 1968 [nothing New Under the Sun]
it's not clear what exactly the audience was voting on at each decision point—contemporaneous reviews describe them pushing buttons to "select the characters,"... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
