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 ( 7356 )
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100 Most Influential Publications in Cognitive Science
At some time early in the millennium Minnesota’s Center for the Cognitive Sciences posted a list of the most influential 100 publications in cognitive science... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Brain-to-Brain Coupling
Mark Liberman has just posted on this topic over at Language Log, so I'm boosting this post to the top of the pile. He also cites the Hasson article.* *... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lévi-Strauss and Contemporary Myth: Heart of Apocalypse
I want to pick up and extend the final remarks from my previous post on Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now and then I want to quote and comment on some... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How the Mystic Jewels Meet the Rez and Save the World, a Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
Back near the end of the previous millennium I created a fictional organization, The Order of Mystic Jewels for the Propagation of Grace, Right Living, and... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tassels Waving Amber in the Early Morning Sun
Posted on 01 December 2013
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Lakoff Lecture That Gets Around to His Current Neural Theory and Has a Detail...
Here's a video of a lecture Lakoff recently gave at the Central European University. It's cued to the beginning, but the segement that particularly interests... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
There's Reading and There's Reading
A topic that interests me a great deal. It seems that one Natalie Phillips at Michigan State has been looking into the difference between reading for pleasure... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Victor Mair at Language Log
One of the reasons I check Language Log regularly is to see posts by Victor Mair, a sinologist at U Penn. Half or perhaps more of his posts are devoted to the... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What’s Photography About, Anyhow?
That’s something I think about a lot, though much of that thinking is in the form of the photographs themselves. I suppose the thinking began when I got my Cano... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Now
We know that Apocalypse Now was conceived as a film in which the story of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness would be not re-created but more like re-imagined... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Tree in Winter
Posted on 28 November 2013
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The History of Modern Linguistic Theory: Chomsky
For those interested in the history of modern linguistic theory, Noam Chomsky is a major figure, though one whose influence is rapidly waning. I recommend the... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hearing the Text Changes the Experience
Gregory Jusdanis, one of the more astute bloggers at Stanford's Arcade, has an interesting post on the experience of listening to an audiobook of Mark Twain's... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Moretti's Periodization
Anyone who's read Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees with care is likely to wonder about the periodizations of the novels in the first section, "Graphs. Read more
Posted on 28 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Down to the Bay: A Jersey City Photo Essay
I’ve been to the southern end of Liberty State Park many times, and taken many shots of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge from there, and Port Liberté too. Read more
Posted on 27 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
JC Future 3: Art Surge
A couple of weeks ago Dale “Bright Moments” Hardman had a link on his Facebook page to something called Art Surge, and indicated that he thought it was pretty... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Welcome to Wayquay's
This is an interesting environment to work in. I do most of my shooting outdoors. This space – a second-hand store a friend runs on weekends – is thus very... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Stages in the Evolution of Music
This essay originally appeared in Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 16(3): 273-296, 1993. You can now download it from my SSRN page. Read more
Posted on 26 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Primer on Neural Nets
Michael Nielsen is writing a book on neural nets and deep learning and he's posting chapters to the web. You can access the first chapter here, which uses the... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Platonic Philosophical Ascent for Dummies
When I first saw this lady I thought she was real. I also wondered what she was doing and why she stood so still for so long.Then I wised up. "She's not real,"... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
