Here’s a just published review in JMB, endorsed by some heavy hitters such as Edwin Hutchins and Kevin Warwick. How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement represents a synthesis of the positions that the author, Lambros Malafouris, has developed over the course of his career, supplemented by the addition of new explanatory examples and unpublished…
Percy delivering the 18th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Three items: First a filmed record of the lecture Second, an amended transcript of the lecture Third, the very excellent Patrick Samway, SJ overviews Percy’s lifelong concern with science. By the way, the photo below was taken by artist George Rodrigue: check out Wendy’s blog (George’s widow) and her discussion…
Not surprisingly a contested claim. alcoholKari PoikolainenscienceWine
The very excellent Tom Froese reviews (a final draft) Hutto and Myin for the Journal of Mind and Behavior. Cognitive sciencedaniel huttoEmbodied cognitionenactivismerik myinExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemologyTom Froese
“You get mostly the tourist trade in the Quarter.” “That’s even worse. Only degenerates go touring. Personally, I have been out of the city only once. By the way, have I ever told you about that particular pilgrimage to Baton Rouge? Outside the city limits there are many horrors.” “. . . Fortunately, I’ve written…
A most versatile genius from a very special spot on the map, on the border of Louisiana and Texas. That explains his unique blend of big band, blues, country, cajun, blues, funk and swing. This sums up the man. bluesCajunClarence “Gatemouth” BrowncountryEric ClaptonfunkJazzKeith SperaSwing
Oliver Letwin makes some elegant comments in The Spectator. And no, I for one would cringe at a statue of MO. The quotes below, especially the first, sound as if they came from the pen of Walker Percy. The Notebooks bring out this quality, letting us into some of the smouldering passions that lay behind…
The rights for this photo is attributed to Getty Images. Odd that since it was Simon Oakeshott, Oakeshott’s son, that gave me the photo “to do as I pleased.” I scanned it and returned it and then did a great deal of painstaking touch up work on it for the commemoration of Oakeshott’s centenary — and…
NYT Review: here is the full production in three parts. Jonas KaufmannParsifalWagner
The Smithsonian’s curator of American music explains how the history of two great American innovations—Jazz and baseball—are intertwined. H/T to Ricky Riccardi archivist who scanned the photos used. I especially like the one featured here — Pops with mask and smoke . . . American innovationsbaseballduke ellingtonJazzJohn Edward HasseLouis Armstrongnew orleansRicky RiccardiThe Smithsonian
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