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 ( 7356 )
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Update on the Bogdonoff Graffiti Study
The site is currently disabled for signups. The home page now describes the six methods for using machine learning to analyze street art. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 03 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Steven Vizena’s “Trapped in a Two Dimensional World” as Interprete...
Vizena’s artist’s statement ( his website): My artwork is about enhancing ones reality through better utilization of our visual capacities and awareness of... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Marjorie Perloff on Trump and Howard Hughes
Hughes anticipates the current 'legend' of Trump and his empire. From Hughes to Trump: it seems a clear-cut example of Marx's aphorism that great men always... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Interlude: Slocum’s Pilot and Sensory Deprivation
Bumping this to the top because this is fundamental work. It's from July 2011, but I read La Barre back in the middle to late 1970s. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tweet of the Day: The Primacy of Semantics Over Syntax in Language
This is excellent work. It also underscores the category mistake often made by linguists of confounding syntax with semantics in reasoning. E.g. recursive... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My Old Stomping Grounds
Posted on 31 October 2018
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Cybernetic Trump, Dominating the Public Arena
I recently posted a cybernetic analysis of Donald Trump’s presidency, Trumposaurus Rex @ 3QD – Toward a cybernetic interpretation. This is a relatively short... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Collaboration Networks in the Selection of Drum Samples for Hip-hp
Mason Youngblood, Cultural transmission modes of music sampling traditions remain stable despite delocalization in the digital age, arXiv:1810.11900v1 [stat. Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Getting a Boost from Marginal Revolution, Or into the Weeds with Stats...
Last Thursday, October 25, 2018, I ran up a post entitled, Is this the beginning of the #WorldWideWall ?. The post consisted of five tweets from Leonard... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
RHYTHM NOTES: Polyrhythms – Construction, Practice, Performance
A new working paper. Abstract, contents, and introduction below. Download here: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Key Question in Cultural Evolution: What Entity is the Direct Target of the...
Answer: The cultural object or being, whatever it is, not the biological. Dawkins called it a meme and the name’s stuck around, but it is no longer associated... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
This is AI, at Your Service
I've been depositing papers at Academia.edu for some years now. Every once in awhile they add new services, some for free, some you've got to pay for. Read more
Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
It's a Good Thing She Finally Discovered Music but Gee!! 27 Years Without? OUCH!
Jackie DesForges was suffering from anxiety when she moved from Los Angeles to New York City. NYC made it worse, especially all the noise in her hour and a... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tweet of the Day: Japanese Prints and Drawings
Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600-1915) https://t.co/kf3vbdYe5z pic.twitter.com/3dZwdrQThk — Open Culture... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mose Allison Praises the End of the World
From the "Ever Since The World Ended" LP 1987 _______________________________________________ • Piano, Vocals – Mose Allison • Alto Saxophone –... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Back to Basics, a Graffiti Primer [#EmergentVentures]
Graffiti is a cross between art and extreme sport. – Susan Farrell, Art Crimes It all started with the tag, or hand-style. A few quick strokes and you’re up.... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
#EmergentVentures: Brain-computer Interfaces & Learning
Amazingly excited and grateful to have gotten a grant from @mercatus for my projects on brain-computer interfaces learning! Read more
Posted on 26 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computational Foundations of Natural Intelligence
Marcel van Gerven, Computational Foundations of Natural Intelligence, Front. Comput. Neurosci., 07 December 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2017.00112. Read more
Posted on 26 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Chairman Xi Has, Shall We Say, Limitations
Note what happens at the very end of this clip: 这回不会“通商宽衣”了😂😂😂... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Once Again, Latour [in the NYTimes] – "the Traditional Image of Facts Was Never...
Ava Kofman, The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 25, 2018: The election of Donald Trump, a president who invents the facts to suit his mood and goes after the... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
