This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes Stanford Report, September 7, 2012 Researchers observe the brain patterns of literary PhD candidates while they're reading a Jane Austen novel. The fMRI images suggest that literary reading provides "a truly valuable exercise of people's brains." By Corrie Goldman The Humanities at Stanford L.A. Researcher Natalie Phillips positions an eye-tracking device on Matt Langione. The inside of an MRI machine might not seem like the best place to cozy up and concentrate on a good novel, but a team of researchers at Stanford are asking readers to do just that. In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together to explore the relationship between reading, attention and distraction – by reading Jane Austen. During a series of ongoing experiments, functional magnetic resonance images track blood flow in the brains of subjects as they read excerpts of a Jane Austen novel.
Black Hole par Nassim Haramein. - Theosmunda Black hole, exposé documentaire du scientifique Nassim Haramein (1h41) qui nous explique sa théorie des champs unifiés, la géométrie et dynamique de l’espace, et la science physique en relation avec la spiritualité. Une passionnante vision de notre monde et de l’Univers qui bouleverse les acquis d’une grande partie de la communauté scientifique… Black hole, une vision unifiée de l’univers et de l’homme Nassim Haramein est un scientifique multidisciplinaire et un historien. Il est connu pour la recherche et la construction d’une théorie unifiée de la structure de l’Univers, la théorie des champs unifiés. Sa théorie donne une nouvelle solution aux équations d’Einstein qui intègre le couple et les effets de Coriolis. Nassim Haramein, French subtitles. from laurent puechguirbal on Vimeo. Nassim Haramein n’avait que 9 ans quand il a commencé à asseoir les fondements d’une théorie de la matière et de l’énergie unifiée et hyperdimensionnelle. Une énergie fondamentale Nassim Haramein pense que :
The Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars The Oxford comma, so-called because the Oxford University Press style guidelines require it, is the comma before the conjunction at the end of a list. If your preferred style is to omit the second comma in "red, white, and blue," you are aligned with the anti-Oxford comma faction. The pro-Oxford comma faction is more vocal and numerous in the US, while in the UK, anti-Oxford comma reigns. (Oxford University is an outsider, style-wise, in its own land.) In the US, book and magazine publishers are generally pro, while newspapers are anti, but both styles can be found in both media. The two main rationales for choosing one style over the other are clarity and economy. Pro: "She took a photograph of her parents, the president, and the vice president." This example from the Chicago Manual of Style shows how the comma is necessary for clarity. Con: "Those at the ceremony were the commodore, the fleet captain, the donor of the cup, Mr. Con: "All those commas make the flag seem rained on. H.L. ?
Reading Herzog with Bitch Eyes Austin Grossman Pussy Reading Herzog with Bitch Eyes When you end up in a two-week AirBnB in southern Florida as a man of forty-six, it doesn't happen by accident. In the past year, I've walked away from a house, a relationship, friends, with only two suitcases to show for it. There's a story here, if only I could figure out how to tell it. And the irony is that the cheap temporary apartment I've wound up in offers the tantalizing promise of solving it all. It's almost the whole corpus of masculine writing from the last fifty-odd years, the American Masculine Novel. They don't. I know this puts me out of step with just about everyone, which is another enigma for me to deal with. How'd we end up with these guys? Among the many reasons for this train of thought is that I'm a judge for the Daphne Awards Fiction Prize, which goes to the best book of fifty years ago. Herzog is the novel Bellow wrote after discovering his wife's affair with his best friend. So this is my column.
An Analysis of "the Metropolis and Mental Life " From Modernism Lab Essays by Matthew Wilsey Although Georg Simmel’s “The Metropolis and Mental Life” is a short work, its impact has been profound. Introduction “The Metropolis and Mental Life” focuses on elucidating the “modern aspects of contemporary life with reference to their inner meaning Metropolitan Individuality Simmel begins “The Metropolis and Mental Life” by discussing one of the most important ideas in the work, namely that urban conditions necessitate the creation of a “protective organ.” Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner . . . The development of a protective, rational barrier has a profound impact on individuals living in a metropolis. In addition to the blasé outlook, several other behaviors manifest themselves in an urban setting, namely reservation and freedom. There are several ties to modernity in Simmel’s “The Metropolis and Mental Life." Objective and Subjective Spirits The Weinsteins continue,
I live at the library (and you can, too!) Wall of text crits you, etc. To be fair, I only live in the library during business hours. The rest of the time I'm in my car. I figured, "Hey, I need electricity, and internet, and bathrooms. I then discovered a small room in the corner of the library, where there are five or six divided desks, and lots of power outlets. That was my second day in the library, but my first in the wifi room/makeshift homeless shelter. Waiting for the library to open sucks. I noticed the desk in the back corner was occupied by the same guy who'd been there the day before. Almost every day since has passed in much the same manner. Today, we had a living stereotype crazy street person pay a visit to the library. We also had a potential addition to our crew come in today, but I don't think he's going to make the cut. I found this after the room emptied out the other day. My first suspect was the clean lady, but it wasn't at her desk. The girl wasn't in the lobby yesterday, and she's not in the lobby today.
"How to Write Good " HOW TO WRITE GOOD by Frank L. Visco My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules: 1. Avoid alliteration. Always. 2. James Joyce - Finnegans Wake (1938) James Joyce (1882-1941) James Joyce on UbuWeb Sound Finnegans Wake (1939) Read by Patrick Healy [Stream or download with downthemall] Description: 'Amazing and important, Healy is something truly rare - this is probably as close to a letter-perfect rendering of the text as we can hope to get. After enduring the whole, I heartily recommend that all Wakeans, all Joyceans who claim to be professionals, all lovers of Joyce, make sure that they have, if not their own copy of the reading, at least a copy in a library near them. In January 1992 Patrick Healy read the complete text of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in Bow Lane Recording Studios, Dublin, over a four-day period. 'I was won over to a total admiration for a bravura performance ... this recording may break down many of the barriers that exist between Joyce's magnum opus and the common reader ... an essential adjunct to all expeditions through the text by many future readers.' - Peter Costello, Studies James Joyce in UbuWeb Film
The Sentence Is a Lonely Place DISCUSSED: The Forlornities of Life, Overliteral Pronunciation, Books as Props, Books as Reliquaries, The Scrunch and Flump of Consonants, Barry Hannah, Gordon Lish, Abruptions, Narratives of Steep Verbal Topography,Sam Lipsyte, Consummated Language, Christine Schutt, Interior Vowels I came to language only late and only peculiarly. I grew up in a household where the only books were the telephone book and some coloring books. Magazines, though, were called books, but only one magazine ever came into the house, a now-long-gone photographic general-interest weekly commandingly named Look. A word that I remember coming out of my parents’ mouths a lot was imagine—as in “I imagine we’re going to have rain.” I thus spent about the first thirteen or fourteen years of my life not having much of anything to do with language. Childhood in my generation, an unpivotal generation, wasn’t necessarily a witnessed phenomenon. There is another way to look at this: Take advantage of assonance as well.
Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss (A literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos) Down from the Mountain Once upon a time, writers were like gods, and lived in the mountains. They were either destitute hermits or aristocratic lunatics, and they wrote only to communicate with the already dead or the unborn, or for no one at all. Later, there came another wave of writers, who lived in the forests below the mountains, and while they still dreamt of the heights, they needed to live closer to the towns at the edge of the forest, into which they ventured every now and again to do a turn in the public square. Soon, writers began to take flats in the town, and took jobs—indeed, whole cities were settled and occupied by writers. Now you sit at your desk, dreaming of Literature, skimming the Wikipedia page about the ‘Novel’ as you snack on salty treats and watch cat and dog videos on your phone. The Puppet Corpse To say that Literature is dead is both empirically false and intuitively true. What caused this great decline? What, then, is so terrible? Sick of Literature
Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The "Western Canon": Read Many of the Books Free Online I have little desire to rehash the politics, but the facts are plain: by the time I arrived in college as an undergraduate English major in the mid-90s, the idea of the “Western Canon” as a container of—in the words of a famous hymn—“all that’s good, and great, and true” was seriously on the wane, to put it mildly. And in many quarters of academia, mention of the name of Yale literary critic Harold Bloom provoked, at the very least, a raised eyebrow and pointed silence. Bloom’s reputation perhaps unfairly fell victim to the so-called “Canon Wars,” likely at times because of a misidentification with political philosopher Allan Bloom. That Bloom was himself no ideologue, writes Jim Sleeper; he was a close friend of Saul Bellow and “an eccentric interpreter of Enlightenment thought who led an Epicurean, quietly gay life.” Nonetheless, his fiery attack on changing academic values, The Closing of the American Mind, became a textbook of the neoconservative right. A: “The Theocratic Age” Italy
Flâneur Paul Gavarni, Le Flâneur, 1842. Flâneur (pronounced: [flɑnœʁ]), from the French noun flâneur, means "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". Flânerie refers to the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. The flâneur was, first of all, a literary type from 19th century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. It was Walter Benjamin, drawing on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, who made this figure the object of scholarly interest in the 20th century, as an emblematic archetype of urban, modern experience.[1] Following Benjamin, the flâneur has become an important symbol for scholars, artists and writers. Etymology[edit] Charles Baudelaire The terms of flânerie date to the 16th or 17th century, denoting strolling, idling, often with the connotation of wasting time. Urban life[edit] Architecture and urban planning[edit]