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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"Lolita, Light of My Life..." – Diagrammed!
Opening Sentences From Great Novels, Diagrammed: Lolita, 1984 More https://t.co/mhwy7FhQrW pic.twitter.com/G4e7plS9j7 — Open Culture (@openculture) November 7... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Interior Journey in Heart of Darkness
This is just a quick and dirty note, as a reminder and for the record. The orange arrows in the figure below indicate Marlow’s narrative/journey in Heart of... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Polarization, We Need More, Not Less, but of the Right Kind
The problem is not polarisation but that polarisation is too rarely rooted in fundamental political differences https://t.co/e8A7ajA0ZW — Kenan Malik... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
That Blade Runner Look
I've been watching the original Blade Runner and it occurred to me: THAT's where I got the look. That's why I like to take flicks like these: And I don't care i... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Heart of Darkness as a Ring-composition
In the process of preparing a PowerPoint presentation for my talk at HEX01, the First Workshop on the History of Expressive Systems, I took another crack at... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tracking “Xanadu” Around the Web
I'm gearing up to write a review of Franco Moretti's latest; well, actually, not just Moretti, but Moretti plus thirteen others: Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
"To Kill a Mockingbird" IS NOT a How-to Book for Hungry Cats
After a long torturous process learning to read 177 pages of irrelevance, Mabel was incensed at her book's lack of useful information. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 04 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
“St. George and the Dragon” as Ring-composition
I’ve been having a discussion of my HEX01 presentation with Per Aage Brandt over at Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
"Philosophy Doesn't Do Nuance" – Will Computers Ever Be Able, You Know, to Think?
Luciano Floridi in Aeon: Philosophy doesn’t do nuances well. It might fancy itself a model of precision and finely honed distinctions, but what it really loves... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Trump, "profound" in Spite of His Efforts to Corrupt
Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes argues that Trump has blundered into a profound acknowledgment of the separation of powers embodied in the US Constitution. Read more
Posted on 04 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: The Return of Shaky-cam
Posted on 03 November 2017
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Notes from a Recording Session Involving Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, John...
Early in January of 1993 I spent two days as a page-turner on a classical recording session. Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, John Cerminaro, and Cecil Licad were... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Music Engages Mind and Body
Writing in Aeon, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis says: In fact, the past few decades of work in the cognitive sciences of music have demonstrated with increasing... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cast Asunder for Violating Disciplinary Boundaries
I hear you. I increasingly feel like an outsider in “my” fields; then DH becomes the field, but what’s that, anyway? — whitney trettien (@whitneytrettien)... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
It's Party Time in the Amazon
Sebastian Smith at PhysOrg: Deep in the Amazon rainforest, it's that time again—beer o'clock. Members of the tiny, remote Waiapi tribe in Brazil's eastern Amazo... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Traffic's up at New Savanna
Five weeks ago I reported, Too good to last, the New Savanna hit streak is over. As you may recall, New Savanna had been getting 4000 or more hits a day for... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Art of the Deal, Aka, How the Sausage is Made
Posted on 01 November 2017
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Booo! Halloween Special
Posted on 31 October 2017
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Numeracy is Cultural, Not Natural
Writing in Aeon, Corey S Powell, notes: What seems innate and shared between humans and other animals is not this sense that the differences between 2 and 3... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Public Intellectual • On the Dark Side
A new working paper. Title above, abstract, contents, and introduction below. Download at Academia.edu.: https://www.academia. Read more
Posted on 30 October 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
