Bbenzon
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 ( 6831 )
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Discussing Interesting Things...
The following twitteration reminds me of discussions we used to have about The Valve behind the scenes: @scott_bot @mljockers But the tech really IS interesting... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects at 3QD: A Quake in Being
My latest post is up at 3 Quarks Daily, and it’s a review-essay on Hyperobjects: Sing Me a Song of Hyperobjects: Starting over with Humans and Other Creatures i... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mustart at GV002
Mr. Mustart has a piece at the new Green Villain mural, GV002, on Fairmount in JC. Here's a shot of the piece, and some details. You can see shots of the whole... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The James Brown Biopic is on the Way to a Theatre Near You
Nelson George on James Brown in the NYtimes: An immense ego strove to mask any insecurity. His drive to succeed was as unrelenting as his dancing. Read more
Posted on 27 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
No, the Web Doesn't Destroy Reading, and Here's Evidence
Escaping the Shallows: Deep Reading’s Revival in the Digital Age DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 2014 Volume 8 Number 2 David Dowling , University of Iowa... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Five Friday Fotos, Minimal / Zigzag
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Posted on 25 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects 4: Digital Humanities Edition – High Dimensional Spaces...
This may take awhile. After explaining my change in plan for this series I wade into phase space, complete with pictures illustrating an example of my own.... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects 3: Are We Are Poems About the Earth?
Before considering the subtitle of today’s post, which is derived from the last sentence on page 51 of the thirteenth page of “Nonlocality”, I want to examine... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Networks for Humanists
Just bumped into these today: More Networks in the Humanities or Did books have DNA?: Elijah Meeks, a look at the use of networks in visualizing large textual... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Digital Criticism and the Search for Patterns
I've collected my recent posts on patterns into a working paper. It's online at SSRN. Here's the abstract and the introduction. Read more
Posted on 23 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects: Pardon Me While I Have a Strange Interlude
I’ve begun reading Morton’s second chapter, “Nonlocality,” and have decided I need to say something about Morton’s use of science, a subject matter that’s... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects 2: What Does Real Mean?
The question is from “Viscosity,” p. 32, and “real” is italicized. It’s a good question, one I often ask myself from within my own worldview – you’ll recall l... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Corner Room at the Urban Design Center
The last time I visited the Urban Design Center it had been reduced to rubble, except for a corner room. Here's some shots of that room. Read more
Posted on 22 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading Hyperobjects 1: The World Has Ended
Timothy Morton. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. University of Minnesota Press 2013. 229 pp. I’m finding the book to be a bit... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Body and Spirit: A Story of Fathers and Sons
David Hays and I talked of many things, not all of them intellectually serious. But intellectual seriousness was at the heart of conversations between us. Read more
Posted on 21 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Japan's Special Envoy, Yokio Fushiki, Makes Strange Bedfellows at Madam Wayquay'...
Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Collective Creativity
At long last the venerable New York Times is beginning to catch up with New Savanna. I've been blogging about collective creativity for awhile now, and... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Michael Nielson: The Artist and the Machine
From the post, which is about images produced through scientific instrumentation: While Super-realism isn’t new, that doesn’t mean it’s yet in the artistic... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Beyond Spindling and Mutilation: Shouldn't We Recover Machine Translation for th...
Here's a nice standard-issue history of the digital humanities from NEH, tracing us back to Fr. Busa: The story of digital humanities often begins with another... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Patterns and Literature
So, patterns. Some patterns operate on the time and scale of sensory perception; we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste things in the course of everyday life. Bu... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY