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.
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 ( 7356 )
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If It's Not Online and Free, Then It's Not Published
That's by Scott F. Johnson and it's on his Academia.edu site: The explosion of free PDFs of scholarship published before 1922 facilitatedby Google Books as... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Publish Your Way out of Jail
The Economist reports that Romania has come up with an interesting variation on "publish or perish". THE makers of the Romanian edition of the board game... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Some Modest Graffiti Under the Arches
This past week seems to have become expedition week in the photo section of New Savanna. So it's only fitting that I close out the week with some photos of... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Emotion & Magic in Musical Performance - Quia Pacis Tempore Regnat Musica
A person who gives this some thought and yet does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Orson Welles: Beyond the Fat Man a Great Man?
It seems they're rethinking the career of Orson Welles. The War of the Worlds broadcast was one of the century's great stunts. Citizen Kane was brilliant but... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Prospects: The Limits of Discursive Thinking and the Future of Literary Criticism
Another working paper. The usual deal, links, abstract, contents, and introduction. Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Roads Not Taken: A Study in Poetic Mechanism
Another working paper posted; links, abstract, and introduction as usual. Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What the Green Villain Irregulars Discovered in Their Journey to Another Galaxy...
Yesterday I showed some pictures of the Green Villain Irregulars on their journey to some other place. Now I want to show some pictures of artifacts they... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Disciplines of Psychology, the Study of Literature, and an Ecology of...
Psychoanalysis has been the psychological discipline that has had the most influence on literary criticism, along with Jungian depth psychology and perhaps... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Green Villain Irregulars Go Exploring
On Saturday the Green Villain irregulars hitched a ride on the Tardis and set out for worlds unknown. Here's some shots. Coming out of the time warp. Their... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My Mind and the Machine @3QD
I decided to do something a bit different this time out on 3 Quarks Daily, I decided to indulge myself and write a personal essay – about me! Read more
Posted on 19 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Gods Must Be Crazy in Jersey City 2
From the Wikipedia: The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 South African comedy film written and directed by Jamie Uys. Financed only from local sources, it is the... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Thoughts on the Discipline [Literary Criticism]
It appears that I’ll be publishing a working paper on the profession of academic literary criticism sometime in the next week or three, depending on what other... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Grassiness
I grew up in suburban Pennsylvania. Thus for me, grass is a green lawn. This lawn isn't in Pennsylvania, it's in New Jersey, and it's not someone's lawn, it's... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Description 3: The Primacy of Visualization
I've uploaded another working paper, my third on description. Links: Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/16835585/Description_3_The_Primacy_of_Visualization... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Diary of a Man and His Machines, Part 3: The 21st Century
As I’ve previously indicated, I finished out the previous century with a G3 MacIntosh in the tower configuration and having a (relatively small) LCD monitor – n... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
James Brown in Paris, 1968
James Brown was one of the great musicians and performers of the previous century. Here’s a video of a live performance from 1968. The show opens with... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Alva Noë on Art, Especially Dance, and What It Has to Teach Us About Our Nature
The philosopher Alva Noë recently gave a talk at Google HQ about art and human nature. Here’s Google’s description of the talk: In his new book, Strange Tools:... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
More Frostiness: 3 Passages, 2 from Frost Himself
I’d like to backtrack a bit and pick up the thread on Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”. In my original post at 3 Quarks Daily I’d argued that the poem is a... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Diary of a Man and His Machines, Part 2: How’s This Stuff Organized?
As I indicated in the previous post in this series, I’m in the process of transferring my “stuff” to a new computer, my third for this century. Read more
Posted on 11 October 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
