Bill Benzon
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thinker, writer, musician, artist, photographer
thinker, writer, musician, artist, photographer
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Islamic Philosophy
Carlos Frankel, Deprovincializing Philosophy, LA Review of Books (July 29, 2017), a review of Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World (Oxford UP 2016). A key lesson from Adamson’s overall project is that the conventional notion of “Western” philosoph...
Carlos Frankel, Deprovincializing Philosophy, LA Review of Books (July 29, 2017), a review of Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World (Oxford UP 2016). A key lesson from Adamson’s overall project is that the conventional notion of “Western” philosoph...
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Reflected glory
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Wet peppers
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432 Park Ave as seen from Hoboken at 6AM
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Urban pastoral in the Bergen Arches, Jersey City, NJ
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Friday Fotos: Sunrise, August 9, 2017
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Gestalt Switch in the Emergence of Human Culture
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has just published a collection of 18 articles on culture and cultural evolution: Sackler Colloquium on Extension of Biology Through Culture . The articles can be downloaded free. It looks like an excellen...
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has just published a collection of 18 articles on culture and cultural evolution: Sackler Colloquium on Extension of Biology Through Culture . The articles can be downloaded free. It looks like an excellen...
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Analyzing the corpus of Trump tweets [#DH]
David Robinson has been analyzing Trump tweets . For example: A number of different people have clearly tweeted for the \@realDonaldTrump account over time, forming a sort of geological strata. I’d divide it into basically five acts: Early days : All of Tru...
David Robinson has been analyzing Trump tweets . For example: A number of different people have clearly tweeted for the \@realDonaldTrump account over time, forming a sort of geological strata. I’d divide it into basically five acts: Early days : All of Tru...
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Description, Interpretation, Explanation, and Evaluation as Rhetorical Roles in Literary Criticism [#DH]
I’ve been thinking seriously about description for some time now, and in distinguishing it from interpretation and/or explanation . If we then add evaluation to that we have the four methodological roles that Sharon Marcus investigates in “Erich Auerbach’s ...
I’ve been thinking seriously about description for some time now, and in distinguishing it from interpretation and/or explanation . If we then add evaluation to that we have the four methodological roles that Sharon Marcus investigates in “Erich Auerbach’s ...
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Scale and Context in Computational Criticism [#DH #DH2017 special]
I no longer remember just who started it off, if I ever knew, but the Twitter convo went on and on and branched here and there and covered a lot of territory. Somewhere in there one of Scott Weingart’s tweets led me back to a post by Ryan Cordell and I star...
I no longer remember just who started it off, if I ever knew, but the Twitter convo went on and on and branched here and there and covered a lot of territory. Somewhere in there one of Scott Weingart’s tweets led me back to a post by Ryan Cordell and I star...
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