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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Formal Limits on Machine Learning
Ashutosh Jogalekar, Open Borders, 3 Quarks Daily, Jan 21, 2019: The continuum hypothesis is related to two different kinds of infinities found in mathematics. Read more
Posted on 22 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Syncho-Dog
DANCE ENABLES YOU TO LOSE YOURSELF FIND YOURSELF AT THE SAME TIME .... SO DANCE TO EXPRESS NOT TO IMPRESS.... AND YOU HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL FRIEND .... JUST... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos [a Day Late]: Food (at the Malibu)
Posted on 19 January 2019
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Body Sway and Synchronization in Musical Performance
Andrew Chang, Haley E. Kragness, Steven R. Livingstone, Dan J. Bosnyak Laurel J. Trainor, Body sway reflects joint emotional expression in music ensemble... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sabine Hossenfelder Thinks a Bigger Collider Would Be a Poor Investment
CERN is dreaming of a new and larger particle collider, called Future Circular Collider (FCC). The cost would be in the low 10s of billions (dollars or Euros,... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
No, I Did Not Have Dinner at the White House
Posted on 16 January 2019
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On the Vicissitudes of Authors and Intentions in Literary Criticism
John Farrell, Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors – Or Did they?, Los Angeles Review of Nooks, 13 January 2018. The opening paragraphs: SINCE THE... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Space as a Framework for Representing Mental Contents in the Brain
Jordana Cepelewicz, The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces, Quanta Magazine, January 14, 2019. Opening paragraphs: We humans have always experienced... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tulsi Gabbard: Bolton on Iran Must Be Shut Down
John Bolton’s long standing desire for regime change in Iran must be called out and shut down. If we’re serious about peace, we need to commit to diplomacy and... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Thoughts About Wikipedia
I subscribe to a listserve devoted to the digital humanities. Recently another subscriber asked us for our thoughts about Wikipedia. Here's my response. Read more
Posted on 15 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
"Everything is Subjective? – Really? Do We Want to Do Down That Rabbit Hole?
And another from the ever-quotable @nowviskie https://t.co/0mGmGlSBbK — Rebecca Sutton Koeser (@suttonkoeser) January 15, 2019 No, I don't think we do, though... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Primacy of Music
Erika Koss interviews Dana Goia for Image. Who is Dana Gioia? As chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (2003–2009), he created the largest programs in th... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Fashion and Art Cycles
Peter Klimek, Robert Kreuzbauer, Stefan Thurner, Fashion and art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition: quantitative evidence... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From the Diary of a (graffiti) Writer in Moscow
Faust in Moscow Biennale Artmossphere, as reported in the NYTimes: Monday 11 a.m. Walk to Red Square, passing by the Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral. Read more
Posted on 13 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Do Her Democratic Colleagues in the House Think of AOC?
Obviously, some don't like her anti-establishment ways. From Politico: Democratic leaders are upset that she railed against their new set of House rules on... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Come on in
Posted on 12 January 2019
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AI in China
Read the whole thread. just like anywhere else, AI 人工智能 means everything nothing in China, spanning core computational technologie... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Benjamin Wittes on Collusion and Obstruction of Justice Centered on Trump
From a long article in Lawfare: The public understanding of and debate over the Mueller investigation rests on several discrete premises that I believe should b... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The VC Wisdom of Funding Undergraduate Education in Creative Industries
Daniel Davis on Creative arts and investing in systems at Crooked Timber: The thing about the arts industries is that they’re very hits-driven; talking about... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Miscellany from the Current Stack
Posted on 11 January 2019
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