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.
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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 ( 7805 )
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Sex, Teleology, Cultural Evolution, and the Novel
After a couple of posts on music as a force in history it’s time to return to the main line, literature, in this current series on direction in cultural... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Authority, Trust, and Responsibility in Education
I suspect if some of my younger friends were to see some of the videos and chats coming out of Connected Courses – I’m thinking of the ones that talk about... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computational Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
Abstract: The profound use of the computer in discourse analysis must employ a theory of discourse comprehension and production with which to conduct the... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
German Doubts About Cowboy Tactics of High-tech Corporate Behemoths
Anna Sauerbrey, an editor of the daily, Der Tagesspiegel, in today's NY Times:How can Germany be both afraid of and in love with technology, and the companies... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Is the Origin of the Universe as We Know But the Birth of Time?
That’s what I asked myself sometime within the last 10 or 15 minutes. As I’m not even a physicist, nor anything close to it, I’m not in a position to hazard an... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Academia: The Future Rising
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals Anurag Acharya, Alex Verstak, Helder Suzuki, Sean Henderson, Mikhail Iakhiaev, Cliff Chiung Yu Lin,... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Wonderland by Night
Posted on 10 October 2014
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Virginia Postrel on How to Create a Sense of Optimism About the Future
Writing in Bloomberg View: The reason mid-20th-century Americans were optimistic about the future wasn’t that science-fiction writers told cool stories about... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rethinking Evolutionary Theory
Kevin Laland, Tobias Uller, Marc Feldman, Kim Sterelny, Gerd B. Müller, Armin Moczek, Eva Jablonka, John Odling-Smee, Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Think Graffiti: The Academy of the Wall
Eric Felisbret. Graffiti New York. Harry Abrams 2009. Signal: graffiti + theory + photography. Issue #zero. September 2011. Signal: graffiti + theory +... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Unity of Being and Literary Criticism
Unity of being is emerging as a key, if somewhat mysterious, concept in my thinking. Whatever it is that literature is about, it is about unity of being. Read more
Posted on 08 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Culture as a Force in History: the United States of the Blues
I have long thought of cultural evolution as a driving force in human history, perhaps even as THE most important driving force, but making an argument on the... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ghetto Fabulous, the Soul of Black Folk, and the New Politics That, Alas, Wasn't...
In 1965 the Watts Riot in Los Angeles left 34 dead and gave rise to the Watts Summer Festival. In 1973 Wattstax premiered in LA and all the cool cats, hip... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
David Rothenberg Jams with Whales
The NYTimes: In case you are doubtful about all this I can assure you: whales do really sing, but not always the way you might imagine. Read more
Posted on 06 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mall Culture: Sexy Tomato Wet
Newport Mall in Jersey City, late Sunday morning, when few people are around. Though it's not the people I'm interested in so much as it is the mall itself. Read more
Posted on 05 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Robots R Us: Hawks and Octopii
Robo-hawk: With his Robirds, Nijenhuis had to figure out which parts of flapping-wing flight he could actually simulate. The big concept ended up being... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Where's the World Headed & the Rise of Cities, a Quickie
Scotland recently came close to pulling out of Great Britain. What’s that about? As the day of the vote drew near I’d see stories on the theme: If Scotland goes... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Adulthood in Flux
I just wanted to point out that yesterday’s post, The Next Level: Universal Children and a New Humanity, is the “other side” of my post, Solitaire (in... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Let's Go Exploring!
Posted on 03 October 2014
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Taalim Tablas: Hoboken Arts & Music, 2014
Tabla players from the Taalim School of Indian Music, performing at the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Sept. 28, 2014. Look very closely at the finger... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
