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 ( 7805 )
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Symposium on Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Appearing in the Boston Review, discussion took place back in 2000. Philippe Van Parijs makes the opening statement and then replies to comments on it. Read more
Posted on 13 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Multimodal Biofeedback Facilitates "inner Harmony"
Thilo Hinterberger at h+ Magazine: The Sensorium is a neurofeedback environment that allows people to experience signals from their nonperceptible body processe... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Literature, Emotion, and Unity of Being
I've uploaded a new working paper. Here's the SSRN link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2495398 Abstract and introduction are below. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Flowers
Posted on 12 September 2014
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Dyslexia is Different for Chinese Than for Europeans
From the Economist: Learning to read a language with an alphabet requires learning to sound out words; the visual form maps on to the sound of the word. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Has Adulthood Been Demolished?
A.O. Scott in the NYTimes: What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have know... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
TO WAR! Part 2: A Marx Brothers Analysis of America's War Craziness
Another old time good one. The post is from 2011, the movie from 1933. And, at this rate, the movie will still be relevant in 2033. Think we'll be over it by... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
TO WAR! Part 1: War and America's National Psyche
As part of a special WAR EDITION of New Savanna I'm reproducing a set of notes I wrote up during the 2000 Presidential Election. Read more
Posted on 11 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Criteria for Utopian Visions
Olin Wright has laid out five criteria for evaluating utopian visions: Evaluate alternatives in terms of three criteria: desirability, viability, achievability... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Digital Humanities Around the World in 80 Days
80 links to digital humanities projects around the world, HERE. e.g. Day 8: Arab Image Foundation Jun 29, 2014 Established in Beirut in 1997, the Foundation... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Hallucinated City
Posted on 09 September 2014
CULTURE,
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SOCIETY
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Report on Cultural Evolution for the National Humanities Center, Revised Edition
Back in 2010 I wrote a piece for the National Humanities Center, Cultural Evolution A Vehicle for Cooperative Interaction Between the Sciences and the... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Should You Get from a College Education?
William Deresiewicz: Learning how to think is only the beginning, though. There’s something in particular you need to think about: building a self. The notion... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
10 Influential Books, Aka What Goes Around Comes Around
Back in 2010, at the urging of one of his readers,, Tyler Cowen seems to have started a books meme: What 10 books have influenced you the most? Read more
Posted on 08 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Birth of New York City
From today's NYTimes: In the 17th century, when it was universally held elsewhere in Europe that a strong society required intolerance as official policy, the... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Malibu Diner at Night
Posted on 07 September 2014
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Ratatouille and The Hundred-Foot Journey Briefly Compared
I went to see The Hundred-Foot Journey the other day and was struck at how much it resembles Ratatouille, which, though a (mere) cartoon, is a better film.... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Sculpture in the Garden Meets a Spirit
Posted on 06 September 2014
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"Junk" DNA? Not Really, Or How "selfish Gene" Metaphor Has Gotten out of Control
Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher in Aeon: ENCODE systematically scouted the genome as a whole for specific functions. One function could be coding for proteins;... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: The Day Goes by Outside My Window
IMGP9704 • 9.04.2014 • 6:56:17 AM IMGP9725 • 9.04.2014 • 12:10:20 PM IMGP9726 • 9.04.2014 • 12:10:35 PM IMGP9728 •... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
