Bbenzon
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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 ( 7846 )
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Japanese Prints and Drawings
Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600-1915)https://t.co/kf3vbefOX7 pic.twitter.com/hTjY0dkFFF — Open Culture... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Shaky-cam, New Series
Posted on 24 November 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Work in Progress: Frameworks for Studying the Evolution of Literary Culture
I’ve been working hard over the last two month, writing a response to two reviews of recent work in computational criticism: Nan Z. Read more
Posted on 24 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Ways of Polymaths
David Robson, Why some people are impossibly talented, BBC Worklife, 18 Nov 2019: Examples: When examining the lives of historical polymaths, he [Waqas Ahmed]... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Yesterday's Shoot [symmetry – Without Fear]
Posted on 23 November 2019
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Compare and Contrast, Ocean’s 11 (1960) and Mad Men [Media Notes 20]
I’ve just watched the original Ocean’s 11 (1960), featuring members of the (infamous) Las Vegas Rat Pack: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Rosewater Redemption
is the third volume in a trilogy that began with Rosewater. Abigail Nussbaum reviews it in The Guardian (Nov 22, 2019). From the review: As he did in the... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Signs of the Hallucinated City
Posted on 22 November 2019
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PHILOSOPHY,
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Fascinating, and Sad – A Story of Partition, Loss, of Invention and Fabulation,...
Ellen Barry, The Jungle Prince of Delhi, The New York Times, November 22, 2019. Late in the narrative, but early in the story, at its root: Wilayat followed... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Grimes (c) in the Zone While Producing [and AGI Too]
From a conversation with physicist Sean Carroll: Sean Carroll: 00:10:13 What you’re given in the workspace is the individual sounds and you put them together... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
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
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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
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