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 ( 7812 )
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Ralph Nader Endorses We Need a Department of Peace
Photo courtesy of The Lakeville Journal. Meanwhile, in the Twitterersphere: @hipbonegamer @bbenzon @zenpundit I like what George Will said about this years... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Peace Now! War is Not a Natural Disaster
Over at 3 Quarks Daily my current post reproduces a section of a slender book I’ve put together with the help of Charlie Keil and Becky Liebman. Read more
Posted on 25 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Google in the Cloud, is the Tethersphere Humanity's Future?
Amazon is 1st in cloud services, microsoft is second, and Google is playing catch-up ball, according to the NYTimes. So Google is ramping up. How will that go? Read more
Posted on 25 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos, Sunday Edition: GVX 2016
Posted on 24 July 2016
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Dana Boyd at Davos: We Have Met the Enemy and He R Us?
Dana Boyd, reporting from Davos earlier this year: Yet, what I struggled with the most wasn’t the sheer excess of Silicon Valley in showcasing its value but... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
To Russia, with Love
I've just been looking at my stats and notice that, for some reason, I've recently been getting a lot of view from Russia. Here's the breakdown: Russia USA Mont... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Character Change in the Hollywood Film
Rory Kelly has an interesting guest post at David Bordwell's Observations on film art. It's called "Rethinking the character arc. Read more
Posted on 21 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tequila Sunrise in the Library: Another Take on "digital Humanities"
As I noted in an earlier post, Who put “The Terminator” in “Digital Humanities”?, it seems to me that in its very construction the phrase digital humanities... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pokémon Go and the Citizen Scientist
An editorial in Nature, Gotta name them all: how Pokémon can transform taxonomy: Millions of people have spent the past week walking around. Read more
Posted on 20 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Miyazaki’s Metaphysics: Some Observations on The Wind Rises
Another working paper. Title above, abstract, TOC and introduction below. Download at: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Analog Vs. Digital: How General is the Contrast?
The distinction between analog and digital computers and, more generally, between analog and digital phenomena, has been an important one in contemporary... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Golumbia Fails to Understand Chomsky, Computation, and Computational Linguistics
As many of you know, David Golumbia is one of three authors of a recent article that that offered a critique of the digital humanities (DH), Neoliberal Tools... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ricky Smiley: Black Vs. White Marching Bands
I remember back in the mid-1960s when my high school marching band – the Marching Rams from Richland Township High School in western Pennsylvania – went to the... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
DH Facing the Public, Sharon M. Leon in LARB
As far as I can tell, most of the debates at digital humanities – what is it? is it complicit in neoliberalism? – are about the position of digital humanities... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pāṇini Was Illiterate! How Marvelous!
I have long known that the first grammarian was a 4th century BCE Indian named Pāṇini. I'd tacitly assumed that he was literate and that,... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Humanities? What’s That? (w/ a Look at Pamela Fletcher in LARB)
I don’t know when I first heard about “the humanities,” perhaps college, but maybe before. But if before, well, the phrase wasn’t meaningful until college, and... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
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
