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Cultural informatics
Ways of knowing and ways of doing are being deeply impacted by digital technology from the perspective of individuals, institutions, societies, and global communities. The way in which we view ourselves and create images of self are mirrored through visual culture, expressed…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Hallucinogens as a shared ritual
Eventually, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I thought about the fact that I was now a person who had taken LSD. I was no longer a pharmacological virgin. Taking hallucinogens is a public ritual among some South American indigenous groups, and these societies provide much social…
No cultural frame for psychedelic experience
cultural references for these experiences, except for the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s, but this cultural framework is limited to our distorted memory and history of that time. All these thoughts were floating around in my head when I looked over at a calendar near…
True and false as mere convention
Returning to infinity, it turns out that there is at least a conceptual relationship between the infinity of values between one and zero, and the infinity of values that voltage can have on a computer switch. The binary logic that underlies the computer is an approximation of…
The Mundurucu and words for numbers
Numerical cognition and its relationship to linguistic evolution is a large area of active research. In contrast to the Mangarevan example, where a complex cultural ecology involving a distributed trade network may have spurred the development of advanced math, the Mundurucu…
Is mathematics discovered or invented?
Penrose believes that math is precise while the physical world is approximate; Dehaene believes that math is an approximation of the physical world. Penrose believes that the universe is mathematically comprehensible and fundamentally mathematical, and further that mathematics…
Number sense is like color perception
Dehaene further likens our perception of math to how we perceive color. Color is not an objective property of the world that exists independently of human brains. Color does not exist in the world. Our brains create color when certain wavelengths of light hit our eyes, and they…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Faces give away our emotions
Paul Ekman, professor emeritus from the University of California–San Francisco, seldom misinterprets people’s faces. He has cataloged more than 10,000 possible combinations of facial expressions, creating an inventory called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This research…
What moral means, and whether it is innate
What exactly does “moral” mean? Are any moral absolutes embedded into our brains, or is moral awareness only culturally understood? These questions have occupied philosophers for centuries. The word “moral,” in both its Greek and Latin incarnations, has a strong social…
A universal moral sense across cultures
Humans tend to have that altruistic quality in spades, and in much more sophisticated forms than our genetic neighbors. If moral awareness is universal, we might also expect to see general agreement across cultures. Harvard researchers developed the Moral Sense Test, which…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Lo specchio non inganna: sei giapponese
Parlavamo del fatto che sei giapponese. Lo specchio non inganna. Potrai imitare Michael Jackson e pasticciarti gli zigomi e il naso, o potrai essere un campione di rodeo texano che prende un vitello al lazo, ma ogni molecola del tuo corpo sarà al cento per cento…
Mai americani, mai più davvero giapponesi
. «È proprio questo che voglio dire. Non sarete mai americani o canadesi. Mai e poi mai. Ma una volta che siete stati qui, non potrete mai più essere giapponesi sul serio.» Gli dissi: «Nella mia testa non mi sono mai sentito molto giapponese». Tetsu lasciò cadere la forchetta…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Il costo di adattarsi a un'altra lingua
Come ogni volta che sentivo Astrid parlare tedesco, mi chiedevo quanto le costasse davvero l’adattamento a una lingua e a una cultura lontane dalla sua, adesso che si era esaurita l’eccitazione di vivere nel paese dove da bambina veniva in vacanza, e che il paese aveva rivelato…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
La scarsa cultura del mondo del rock
Poi bisogna dire tutta la verità: non è che il mondo della musica rock sia popolato da persone di straordinaria intelligenza, e ancora meno di straordinaria cultura. La caratteristica più comune è una mancanza di precisione del pensiero dovuta allo stile di vita, al confronto…
Le Radici Dell’odio E Della Convivenza
I migliori hanno mollato
I critici di questa ondata di sentimenti contro gli immigrati di solito si limitano a celebrare l’infinito rituale di confessare i peccati dell’Europa, ad accettare umilmente i limiti della sua identità e ad esaltare la ricchezza di altre culture. I famosi versi di William…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Baci e abbracci tra semplici conoscenti
Lei va ad abbracciare Tommaso e Lauretta a sua volta, senza riuscire a mettere autentico calore in questa piccola recita sociale. L’abitudine italiana degli scambi di abbracci e baci anche tra semplici conoscenti continua a lasciarla leggermente perplessa, non ci si è mai…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Esiste una filosofia giapponese?
Vanno superati alcuni stereotipi, i pregiudizi. Come affrontare la questione: esiste una filosofia in Giappone? Conosciamo la risposta che fino a poco fa ci sarebbe stata propinata: la filosofia nasce in Grecia, in Giappone non esiste. È la replica dell’imperialismo, così ben…
Prendere in prestito e rielaborare
Per analizzare la mente giapponese si dovrà partire da questo curioso ibrido linguistico che non trova riscontri, in questa proporzione, in altre civiltà o etnie. Si tratta di una mente disponibile all’influsso esterno: riprende assunti e persino stili di vita stranieri per…
Tolleranza e senso di superiorità
Tuttavia, nonostante lo spirito di tolleranza i giapponesi si considerano al centro del mondo, assegnando alla loro nazione una funzione-guida nell’Asia e nell’universo. La disamina delle scuole nazionalistiche dovrebbe averlo mostrato. Esiste una mentalità che, pur ammettendo…
Lo stereotipo del guerriero feroce
La mente giapponese inclina alla bellicosità, se non alla ferocia? L’elemento militare è sempre sottolineato, accanto alla esaltazione della forza. Tuttavia, ciò avviene sempre in un contesto culturale, spirituale: un samurai coltiva la potenza e l’arte nel contempo, il fisico…
Yamato kokoro (definizione)
Yamato kokoro. La mentalità e lo spirito giapponese.
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Japanese culture
Nishida implies that the proper relation between cultures is parallel to that between “I and Thou.” In simpler language: “A true world culture will be formed only by various cultures preserving their own respective viewpoints, but simultaneously developing themselves through…
Science Journals Have Passed Their Expiration Date -- It's Time For The Publishing Platform - Innovation Insights
Scientific publishing is a relic from another age
Scientific journals keep alive a culture of unnecessary adjudication, delay, corruption-rich anonymous peer review, and conclusions without the underlying data sets. Enough! What the world needs are publishing platforms, not journals. Here is what a publishing platform does: A…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Cowardice as being taken by surprise
It happened in seconds. I told myself, as I watched the beating, that it was all too fast, that I was dazed, and there was no time to react. What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Independence is not supreme
It’s easy to see that independence is much more mature than dependence. Independence is a major achievement in and of itself. But independence is not supreme. Nevertheless, the current social paradigm enthrones independence. It is the avowed goal of many individuals and social…
Proactive organizations and families
Businesses, community groups, organizations of every kind—including families—can be proactive. They can combine the creativity and resourcefulness of proactive individuals to create a proactive culture within the organization.
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
LSD and the right hemisphere
For centuries, Western industrial society has overplayed the importance of the left hemisphere, referring to it as the major hemisphere, while systematically downgrading the right and calling it the minor hemisphere. The idea I was pushing around in my journal was that LSD…
Mushrooms and the origins of religion
Such speculations were to run through the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History, which the Wassons published on their return from Mexico. Their book, or so the story goes, had started life as a cookbook of mushroom recipes. As the couple researched their subject, however…
Eliade's shamans
The next book I set about reading was Mircea Eliade’s Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, which proved to be an inspired choice. Mircea Eliade’s groundbreaking research had been published only a few years before the Wassons’, and in many respects their books dovetailed…
Schultes puts ayahuasca on the map
In particular, Schultes put the ayahuasca brew in its commanding position on the South American cultural map and started to unpick the complex chemistry involved.
The culture-wide denial of death
When my mind cleared I was sitting quietly, leaning up against the beech trunk, thinking about death. Gurdjieff used to speak of two higher “centers” in us, a higher emotional center and a higher intellectual one; and I know that on several trips I have touched on a…
Ecstasy and the world made of love
It’s a long time ago now, but the runaway success of the first warehouse parties in the 1980s had seemed to promise a fresh cultural and political breakthrough. Since those days Ecstasy has been so commercialized that it’s hard to recapture the excitement that greeted its first…
Psychedelics culturally vindicated
A well-established, even well-heeled cult I had been expecting, but not one thriving like this. The hall was so packed you could barely move. Of all the revolutionary groups of my youth—the hippies, the New Left, the students, the blacks, the feminists—it was, however…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Tiedemann's history of philosophy starts with the Greeks
The idea that philosophy has a uniquely Greek source and that everything prior to the Greeks is simply not philosophy finds its most powerful modern expression in Dietrich Tiedemann’s six-volume Geist der spekulativen Philosophie (The Spirit of Speculative Philosophy, 1791–7)…
Gramsci's philosophy of praxis
Although in very poor health and initially forced to share a cell with five other prisoners, Gramsci’s brain kept working and he produced the posthumously published Prison Notebooks which offer a powerfully consequent critique and reconstruction of the basic concepts of…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Cultural variation in conceptions of self
There is, however, another argument for the social construction of self, based on the claim that notions of self vary enormously from culture to culture. And on the face of it, there does seem to be a lot of evidence that this is true. For instance, the philosopher Rom Harré…
Eskimo emotions depend on community
‘Eskimo emotional states appear to be much more socially dependent than ours. Isolated Eskimos, in so far as they can be observed, seem to be stolid, neither cheerful nor depressed. But once they become part of a community (a family, say) they quickly take on the emotional tone…
Exoticising the unfamiliar
However, there is clearly a danger here of exoticising the unfamiliar.
Psychological continuity in every human society
despite the notorious confusions of westerners trying to get by in Japanese culture, neither locals nor foreigners ever have any difficulty in treating individuals as the same individuals over time, with consistent traits, beliefs and so on. If you try to really imagine a…
Nisbett: how Westerners and East Asians think
recent work of Richard E. Nisbett on the differences between how Westerners (Europeans and North Americans) and East Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) think. Nisbett surveys a wide range of studies and concludes that there are real and important differences in how people…
Reincarnated lamas are just Tibetan culture
Ringu says that the whole idea of reincarnation is ‘just Tibetan culture’. As he explains, the idea of lines of reincarnated lamas is not something that goes back more than two millennia to the life of the Buddha, but one that actually only started in the twelfth century with…
Integrated people are becoming dinosaurs
‘Everything’s exploded in the last twenty years. You will get people who, even if they still live in the same community and a very stable family situation, are subject to a thousand different cultures every time they walk out of the door. Every one of those impacts produces a…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
The death of the grown-up
she describes the parents who are serving their children in a way that is detrimental to their children’s growth and development. Another contemporary writer, Diana West, goes so far as to warn that this tendency is a threat to western civilization. Her book The Death of the…
Reggio Emilia brings Vygotsky back
More recently, many early childhood educators in the United States and other countries have turned their attention to the preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Discussion of the educational theories implemented there has brought about a new focus on Vygotsky’s work. Vygotsky’s…
Knowledge is social as well as personal
For years, early educators, schooled in Piaget’s theories, viewed children’s knowledge as being constructed from personal experiences. Although Vygotsky also believed this, he thought that personal and social experience cannot be separated. The world children inhabit is shaped…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Period names mean different things to different archaeologists
Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements and cultures. The use of a certain terminology implies a number of ideas that may differ from researcher to researcher…
The CRM definition of a period
Definition is the most important information category. It is about defining every notion of period in a specialized way. Cultural period is a multidimensional concept about complex interrelations between cultural phenomena. The CIDOC CRM defines the basic notion of a period…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Manovich’s cultural analytics concept
Manovich’s paper, Cultural Analytics: Annual Report 2010, provides an update on his ongoing project of using visualisation techniques (computationally based) to explore cultural data – giving the examples of over a million manga pages, and every Time magazine cover since issue…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
La disparità culturale come afrodisiaco
Gianluca Perusato pensa che all’inizio ci voleva molto meno, per impressionarla: bastava aprirle la portiera di una bella macchina, farla entrare nella suite di un grande albergo, appoggiarle al polso un piccolo bracciale d’oro, anche solo parlare inglese o tedesco o francese o…
La trasformazione della nipote di pescatori
Quelli di Lucia sono autentici scoppi di vigore vocale, il risultato evolutivo di infinite generazioni di urlatori e urlatrici da una barca all’altra, da una roccia all’altra. Ha questi lineamenti smussati, questa pelle liscia, questo sguardo scuro e umido che un tempo gliela…