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 ( 7628 )
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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 -
Ring Composition by J. S. Bach, the Crab Canon
"The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and bac... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Happy Birthday is Free
As some of you no doubt know, "Happy Birthday" had been in copyright jail for years and years. Whenever the song was performed, Warner/Chappell would collect... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Faculty Psychology: The Triple Soul
Theory of Mind 101: the triple soul The ancient Greeks believed that humans had three souls, a rational soul, a sensitive soul, and a vegetative soul. Freud... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Thermodynamics of Life
Jeremy England, MIT physicist, in Aeon: The theoretical research I do with my colleagues tries to comprehend a new aspect of life’s evolution by thinking of it... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mnozil's "Blue", a Bunch of Other Tunes, a Man in a Ratty Black Wig & Red Cape....
I've been watching Mnozil Brass for several years now and think they're fabulous. They combine music and comedy in a stunning way. They're septet out of Austria. Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Vehicularization: A Control Principle in a Complex Modal Animal (w/ New Note on...
I'm bumping this to the top because it has direct bearing on my current ring-composition work. Consider the temporal horizons of actions undertaken in each... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Traffic's Wonky at New Savanna
First, sometime in the last day or two page views went over 2 million: What's really interesting, though, is the ups and downs over the past week. Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tags/labels at New Savanna: What's up with That?
I've listed New Savanna's tag cloud below, though of course it's over there to the right, with hyperlinks. What's up with that? Why so many? Is it useful? Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
