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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This Photo (top One) Has Gotten 78 Views So Far Today, and the Day is Still...
You would prefer maybe this version: Or this? This maybe? This, near as I can tell, is the "origial", more or less as it came out of the camera: What is it? Sno... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Galen Strawson on Michalel Pollan on Psychedelics
Galen Strawson review's Michael Pollan's How To Change Your Mind: The new science of psychedelics in TLS. What should we call the experience? Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Music and Language Syntax Interact in Broca’s Area
Kunert R, Willems RM, Casasanto D, Patel AD, Hagoort P (2015) Music and Language Syntax Interact in Broca’s Area: An fMRI Study. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141069.... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Study Language in Context So We Can Understand How It is a Function of the...
Uri Hasson, Giovanna Egidi, Marco Marelli, Roel M. Willems, Grounding the neurobiology of language in first principles: The necessity of non-language-centric... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Egon Schiele Paints Some Flowers
#HistoryofPainting#Art is life!♡Art is love!♡Art is freedom!Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A New Humanities for the 21st Century, Really? – Heart of Darkness Across...
From the other day, “the new humanities”: The work of @SimonDeDeo has made me realize a seminar on the philosophy of textual difference, vector spaces, and... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Humanities Crisis is Real? – A Couple of Notes
This post hit the humanities blogosphere in late July like Little Boy and Fat Man combined: I recant my 2013 view that there's no humanities crisis in the US. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Seas of Green
Posted on 10 August 2018
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Japanese Ghost Stories
In Japan, ghost stories are not to be scoffed at, but provide deep insights into the fuzzy boundary between life and death https://t.co/VlGNXVJ6S0 pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Naomi Klein Says the New York Times Blew Its Massive Story About the Decade in...
Naomi Klein, Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”, The Intercept. According to Rich, between the years of 1979 and 1989, the basic... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Toward a Counter Narrative for New York 2140 [#NY2140]
In chapter “e) Charlotte” in Part Five, there was a vote on whether or not to accept an offer to buy out the Met Life Tower. The vote was close, 1207 against,... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mind Hacks R Us – Computing & Tripping to the Millennium’s End
A bit earlier in this millennium I thought it would be interesting to write a book on the parallel evolution of computer culture and psychedelic culture in the... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Gavin 4: Some Computational Semantics for a Shakespeare Sonnet
Now we’re ready to look at a computational model I developed for a Shakespeare sonnet, 129, “The Expense of Spirit”. When did this work I had no intention of... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Douglas Hofstadter on the Limitations of Machine Translation
Ashutosh Jogalekar over the 3 Quarks Daily (look in the comments) has called my attention to a recent article in which Douglas Hofstadter puts Google Translate... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Objectivity
Here is the publisher's blurb for Lorraine J. Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, MIT Press, 2007: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
New York Skyline, a Bit of Context for Readers of New York 2140 [#NY2140]
For fans of New York 2140, here’s a bit of context for the Met Life Tower. I'm standing on the Palisades in Jersey City, looking out over Hoboken at Manhattan.... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Emily Remler, Guitar Great
Is it time to reassess the artistry of guitarist Emily Remler (1957-1990)? https://t.co/ooawFVHCoF Lost to us at age 32. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 07 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Gavin 3: Comments on a Passage from “Paradise Lost”
What Michael Gavin [1] did was to place traditional close-reading and computational criticism in the same intellectual context by using the concept of... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Podcasts for a Better Life
Molly Worthen, The Podcast Bros Want to Optimize Your Life, NYTimes: The sales pitches can eat up slightly more airtime than ads for mattresses and grocery... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Moonrise at Futago Island, Matsushima
Hasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水 Kawase Hasui, May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist. He was one of the most prominent print... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
