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 ( 7356 )
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At Last, After 40 Years, Someone is Listening [#DH]
a computational model of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 129" (1976)—an unheralded project by @bbenzon #HEX01 pic.twitter.com/vXdeNcs6tH — James Ryan (@xfoml) November 14... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Special FX: The Moon Didn't Fall in Alabama, Either, but Jumper and Kong Made a...
Posted on 20 November 2017
CULTURE,
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SOCIETY
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Two Views of Manahattan
BONUS below the fold – "It was beauty killed the beast." Read more
Posted on 19 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
OOO: Baby Jesus and the Sausage Roll
Greggs forced to apologise after PR shots promoting advent calendar replace baby Jesus with a SAUSAGE ROLL pic.twitter.com/q0qwd4ISxh — Andrew Bloch... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
“King Kong” as a Ring-form Game: Some Preliminary Notes [#HEX01]
I’m thinking about what would be involved in making a game that would play-out as a ring composition. Given that ring composition is a specific form of plot it... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Zoom Cranes
Posted on 17 November 2017
CULTURE,
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SOCIETY
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Is Formal Peer Review Really Useful Anymore?
Timothy Gowers, in TLS, "The end of an error?", opens by discussing three cases: In 1998 an article appeared in the Lancet (on the link between MMR vaccine and... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Metaphoric and Metonymic Invariance: Two Examples from Coleridge
I've added another article to my online stash. Title above. Download from: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Vehicularization & Ring-Form: Remarks on Some Issues Raised at #HEX01
I enjoyed presenting to HEX01: First Workshop on the History of Expressive Systems. I wish I’d had more time (don’t we all?), I wish I’d been there in person... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Boundaries, When Humans Make Claims on the Land
When I took this photo (just the other day) I was standing in the area of Jersey City known as The Heights. The reason for the name is obvious, that there down... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ted Underwood on Canon/Archive [#DH]
Ted Underwood reviews Canon/Archive, by Franco Moretti (Author and Editor) and 13 others (Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Matthew... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Shenanigans Among the Hopkins Literati @3QD
My latest for 3 Quarks Daily: Old School: Torpor and Stupor at Johns Hopkins:... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My 1985 Visualization Manifesto: The Visual Mind and the Macintosh [#DH...
Sometime in 1984 my friend Rich sent me a letter he had written on someone’s Macintosh computer. I forget what it said, and that doesn’t matter. Read more
Posted on 13 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
"the Best Tweet Ever Crafted"
First this: BREAKING: this is footage of philosopher slavoj zizek scarfing down a frank on the run pic.twitter.com/C9MEtgSB7y — John Ganz (@lionel_trolling)... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sonnet 129 on Male Sexual Violence – Shakespeare on Harvey Weinstein & Louis C....
Angelina Chapin interviews therapist Alexandra Katehakis on why some men like to force women watch them masturbate: Do perpetrators experience shame afterward?... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Visibility of Knowledge [#DH]
That's the title of a new research project involving Andrew Piper, Chad Wellmon, and Mohamed Cheriet: Our aim is to study how scientific knowledge became visibl... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Community Sizes of 50, 150 and 500 Are Disproportionately More Common Than...
Dunbar, R.I.M., & Sosis, R., Optimising human community sizes, Evolution and Human Behavior (2017),... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: My Flickr Top 10
My most viewed 'photo' on Flickr has 12,273 views. But it's not actually a photo. It's a JPG of the front of a German newspaper with an nasty anti-Trump... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Drummer's Mind
Josh Jones, Open Culture: Neuroscientist David Eagleman, a renaissance researcher The New Yorker calls “a man obsessed with time," found this out in an... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I’m Confused, Don’t Know Which Way is Up, Time to Ramble [#HEX01 #DH]
Well, not really confused. But there’s a lot going on so I need to just sit back a bit and THINK. HEX01 ring composition I’m psyched about my upcoming talk... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
