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.
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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 ( 7631 )
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For the Love of All That Jazz Is, by What Authority Does Houston A. Baker, Jr....
Yes, in the scheme of things it’s a minor matter, I know. But still. Back in 2005 PMLA published 18 short pieces in honor of Jacques Derrida, who had died the... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Trumposaurus Rex @ 3QD – Toward a Cybernetic Interpretation
That’s what my current piece at 3 Quarks Daily is about, Feed Me Donald! – Trump, Musk, The Internet, And Monsters From The Id. I start with Elon Musk’s... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Original FAKE NEWS
Jill Lepore, The Hacking of America, NYTimes: Radio, though, was also a tool of tyrants. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, had a device installe... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Religion Among Trump Supporters
Ross Douthat, Conservatism After Christianity, NYTimes. The survey was conducted by the Cato Institute’s Emily Ekins for the Voter Study Group, who analyzed... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computer Science Education in K-12
“... why does our computer science education, even in elementary school, look so much like the profession of software engineering? Read more
Posted on 15 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Star Struck and Broken Down 7: Comments on a Short Text Avital Ronell Wrote to...
In all this thinking and reading about Ronell I couldn’t help but wonder about her intellectual work. I realize that that’s not directly at issue. What’s at... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Einsteinian Metamorphosis, Light Matter: E = Mc^2
Posted on 14 September 2018
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A Short Note About The Magnificent Seven
I watched The Magnificent Seven yesterday. It’s an 1960 American adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954). The story is simple: A small village of... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
1957, the Magic Year, Oh Those Crazy Russkies!
Sam Tanenhaus,Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2018: “Listen now,” an NBC radio announcer... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Star Struck and Broken Down 6: The Lure of the Esoteric
is now a good time to add that I once saw Ronell speak and she made no sense? https://t.co/cKl6D2qyLn — Katie Fitzpatrick (@katiefitzpat) September 9, 2018 It i... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Battlestar Galactica (2004), a Note on the Multiplicity of Beings
I’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, the 2004 version. I’m sure I watched a bunch of episodes when it was on broadcast TV, but which episodes and how many... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Importance of Visualization [#DH]
All have same mean, variance, correlation, regression line. Lesson: Always Visualize Data https://t.co/Sv5KtY26rE pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why Are Conversations Limited to About Four People?
Jaimie Arona Krems, Jason Wilkes, Why are conversations limited to about four people? A theoretical exploration of the conversation size constraint, Evolution... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Holographic Brain
I. Rish and G. A. Cecchi, Holographic brain: Distributed versus local activation patterns in fMRI, IBM Journal of Research and Development (Volume: 61, Issue:... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Honesty, Compassion, Self-reliance: Hobo Ethical Code from 1889
First, some definitions from Hank Martin, The Ethics and Lessons of Being a Hobo: A hobo, tramp and a bum are three completely different things. Most of us... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
King Kong on Broadway: Operating the Puppet
Michael Paulson, Broadway’s Biggest Debut, The NYTimes. King Kong is coming to Broadway this Fall. At the center of the production is a large animatronic... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
David Patrick Columbia, The Times They Are a Changin'
David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary: Monday, September 10, 2018. The horrific heat ran down to cool on Thursday night. Read more
Posted on 10 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Limbic Resonance: Elon Musk Discusses AI with Joe Rogan
The conversation Joe Rogan had with Elon Musk was far ranging, starting out with pseudo-flamethrowers Musk had sold through The Boring Company and ends 25... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Generative Art (i.e. Made Via Computer)
Jason Baily, Why Love generative Art? Artnome, August 26, 2018. Go there and look at the pictures. Over the last 50 years, our world has turned digital at... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics
Evan Goldstein interviews Fukuyama in The Chronicle Review. Q. You’re critical of how political struggles are framed as economic conflicts. In your view, it’s... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
