The Cooking Gene
Looking forward to this. Here’s an interview with the author Michael Twitty. gastronomyjewish foodkosher foodmichael twittysoul foodsouthern cuisine
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Review of Lawrence Powell’s masterful history of New Orleans in Cosmos + Taxis. The palpable sense of cultural vibrancy and of place, so essential to New Orleans’ identity, makes absolute nonsense of the currently fashionable phrase “cultural appropriation”, a conceptually illiterate term of abuse, a newfangled fundamentalism, espoused by the authoritarian “regressive” left. cosmos &…
What a 1930s horse racing guide by a conservative philosopher could teach sports scientists today
Ed Smith in the New Statesman. A Guide to the ClassicsConservatismGuy GriffithLiberalismMichael OakeshottPhilosophy of history
Facebook usage on smartphones and gray matter volume of the nucleus accumbens
People who frequently check Facebook (or as I’ve called it “Facecrack”) on their smartphone tend to have less gray matter in a reward-related area of the brain — Behavioural Brain Research. It appeared, that in particular higher daily frequency of checking Facebook on the smartphone was robustly linked with smaller gray matter volumes of the…
Popol Vuh
Still on music, a pretty damn good price ($33) for 5 disks, a package with very good production values. Apparently it’s out of stock and will hopefully become available again soon and at a similarly good price. If you appreciate the work of Eno and Bowie, you’ll get Popul Voh, arguably the grandees of so-called “Krautrock”.…
Music Noir Americana
I’m so glad that Robert Fontenot in OffBeat has again unequivocally given the Deltas the thumbs up. I’ve been thinking about how to characterize this band and independently came up with the idea that Deltaphonic are the musical analog to film noir. This time of year I usually visit Baton Rouge but I’ll have to settle for listening to track…
David Stove
Died on this day in 1994. A sure-fire way to wind up your colleagues on “plantation regressive” is to leave this book in plain sight or, for that matter, any Stove book would do the trick. If you like a cracking no-holds-barred philosophical polemic then Stove is the man for you (Stove might well have been the most…
Stefan Zweig, Farewell to Europe
This film seems consistently to be garnering very warm reviews — NYT, The Observer, Variety, IndieWire and the LARB. austriaLiteratureStefan ZweigThe World of Yesterday
Walker Percy Wednesday 138
As a consequence of the unprecedented appearance of the triad in the Cosmos, there appeared for the first time in fifteen billion years (as far as we know) a creature which is ashamed of itself and which seeks cover in myriad disguises. One semioticist defined the subject of his study as the only organism which…
Reissue of Hayek’s The Sensory Order
The University of Chicago Press has alerted me that TSO is almost as good as here — so order now through the usual channels so as to not waste anytime in getting your hands on a copy. Cognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceFriedrich Hayekphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindSensory Orderviktor vanberg
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