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Why was everyone all always talking about Attention? | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
https://notbyneeds.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/introducing-attention
Science, media, and science fiction jph. Why was everyone all always talking about Attention? May 24, 2011. Attention is a central concept in our thinking. Few concepts have changed as dramatically throughout their diverse and sordid histories, and few have had as many theoretical or incestuous liaisons. Yet “attention” has manage to convince us that its meaning is atemporal, or at least consistent. In the 1700s, attention was entangled with Reason, and they were strict allies. L ater, that bond. He too ...
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Virgil’s Exclusion | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
https://notbyneeds.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/virgils-exclusion-a-fragment-from-the-book-to-be
Science, media, and science fiction jph. May 17, 2011. In Dante’s poetic epic. The pagan-Virgil serves as the Christian-Dante’s guide and teacher throughout the rings of the Inferno and ranges of Mount Purgatory. Virgil’s own epic poem. Had a profound effect on the “real-life” Dante, yet Dante recognized that Virgil and his. Were articulations of a particular time, specifically, a pre-Christian time. We find that Virgil himself comes to confront the limits of these enclosures. Click to share on Twitter (...
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How does the History of Ideas “Move”? Metaphors that are going somewhere. | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
https://notbyneeds.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/movement-and-intellectual-history
Science, media, and science fiction jph. How does the History of Ideas “Move”? Metaphors that are going somewhere. June 13, 2011. Thought moves. Whether with fluidity or rigidity, the movements of thought may remind us of the movements within Glenn Gould’s performance of Mozart’s Sonata No. 10 in C Major. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). June 13, 2011. Punctuated Equilibrium as metaphor. You are comme...
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Is that shit “meta” or is it Hermeneutic? Fan-talk and philosophical feuds. | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
https://notbyneeds.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/this-shit-is-meta-tv-movies-and-philosophical-mash-ups
Science, media, and science fiction jph. Is that shit “meta” or is it Hermeneutic? Fan-talk and philosophical feuds. June 4, 2014. Abed Nadir is the audience’s segregate voice on “Community.”. Over at io9.com. Annalee Newitz recently wrote a short piece. On how meta has become central concept in fan commentary. Shows such as Buffy. Or films such as S cott Pilgrim, Tropic Thunder,. Means a particular kind of relationship between audience and artist . Those are my terms,. Newitz says it this way:. These da...
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Gaston Bachelard | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
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Science, media, and science fiction jph. March 7, 2011. Yet it is only in 2002 that his most famous text. The Formation of the Scientific Mind. Was translated into English. The Philosophy of No. Has enjoyed translation for longer, but with little commentary. I hope that the English world will come to rediscover this great thinker, and see that many of our most cherished concepts bear his signature. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). March 7, 2011.
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Punctuated Equilibrium as metaphor | science, media, & science fiction_______________jph
https://notbyneeds.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/punctuated-equilibrium-as-metaphor-fragment-from-the-book-to-be
Science, media, and science fiction jph. Punctuated Equilibrium as metaphor. May 18, 2011. Painting by Heinrich Harder. Crump’s A Brief History of Science as Seen Though the Development of Scientific Instruments (2001), is saturated with such formulations of progress in respect to the fitness of our science…]. 8230;even though Butterfield had exercised many of those demons from the writing of history in 1931.2]. When the Burgess Shale fossils were discovered by Charles Walcott in 1909, the fossils were u...
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