Bbenzon
Description
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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Friday Fotos (Displaced to Monday): The Humanities in Digital Flux, a Story...
Posted on 11 July 2016
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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DH and Critique (DHpoco), with a Nod to Latour (via Felski)
I just now came across this three-year old conversation, Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” From... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Should Digital Humanists Know How to Code?
From Alverado Rafael Alvarado, The Code Problem: The first is to learn for the reason that Tim Berners-Lee exhorts journalists to learn–you... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Color the Subject
I've just been reading through this post and its many comments, which is about digital humanities and cultural criticism, more or less. One topic under... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Seinfeld Influence on Bill Gates
This is a link to a post at Bill Gate's blog. The post is about his relationship with Warren Buffett. On that page there's a video titled "Philanthropists in... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
It’s Not a Question of Manpower, a Brief Remark on Computational Criticism
One reason that has been given for computational criticism (aka ‘distant reading’) is that it is the only way we are going to examine books beyond the canon... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Modest Take on AI
Greg Borenstein at Medium: What’s stopping AI from being put to productive use in thousands of businesses around the world isn’t some new learning algorithm. Read more
Posted on 05 July 2016 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Biologist Jerry Coyne on Scientific Method (Description)
Clyne sets up his response to a NYTimes philosophy piece (“There is no scientific method”) in this way: the classic presentation of “The Scientific Method” in... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
July 4, 2016, Jupiter Day in the Solar System
Nicola Tilley in The New Yorker: Nasa has a habit of scheduling high-stakes maneuvers to coincide with patriotic holidays. On July 4, 1997, at lunchtime, the... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ben and the Boys: Some Casual Remarks Violence, Authority, and Sex in Bonanza
A couple of weeks ago I watched my way through the first season of Bonanza, a TV western that I had watched in my youth. As some of you may know, it was one of... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Myth of Regeneration Through Violence
Roy Scranton, ‘Star Wars’ and the Fantasy of American Violence, in the NYTimes: “Star Wars” managed a remarkable trick. Two years after the fall of Saigon and... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Foto Make-up: Special Creatures
Posted on 03 July 2016
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Memory in Collective Cognition
Mnemonic convergence in social networks: The emergent properties of cognition at a collective level Alin Comana, Ida Momennejada, Rae D. Drachc, and Andra Geana... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Fans and Scholars Working on the History of Science Fiction
Stefana Forlini, Uta Hinrichs, and Bridget Moynihan, The Stuff of Science Fiction: An Experiment in Literary History, DHQ 2016, vol 10, #1. Read more
Posted on 28 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Michal Pollan Talks About Psychedelics
At Mother Jones: You know Michael Pollan from his blockbuster book The Omnivore's Dilemma, an entertaining exploration of the thorny decisions surrounding what... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Skeptical View of AI
Five years ago Skeptic published A.I. GONE AWRY: The Futile Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Peter Kassa. It's pretty good. Read more
Posted on 28 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How is the Human Brain Like the Internet, Metabolic Networks, Relations Among...
Navigable networks as Nash equilibria of navigation games András Gulyás, József J. Bíró, Attila Kőrösi, Gábor Rétvári Dmitri... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Brexit State of Mind @3QD: The Vision Thing
My latest post is up at 3 Quarks Daily, A Brexit State of Mind: The Vision Thing. I start with a dream–not a nightmare, but not a laughriot either–move into... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Networks in the Middle Ages
Calculating the Middle Ages? The Project "Complexities and Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean and Near East" (COMMED) Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Submitted o... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Respose to Sad Music
Eerola T, Peltola H-R (2016) Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157444.... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
