Monthly Archives: March 2012
The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction – NYTimes.com
The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction – NYTimes.com. A nice, compact, tantalizing run-down of contemporary thinking about what neuroscience has discovered about what goes on in our brains when we read fiction. Worth the read.
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Teddy gets all reasonable and stuff.
from Theodore Roosevelt, “Socialism, II — Where We Can Work with Socialists” (Outlook 27 March 1909). I have copied below a couple representative excerpts from part II of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1909 essay on socialism published in the Outlook in 1909. I … Continue reading
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Fourierism and Sexuality: A Couple Thoughts on Socialism and Sexuality in 19th C. America
This is probably a useful thing to do, writing a blog post, a way to get some words on paper and, prior to that, some thoughts composed. I’m presenting a paper at the C19 conference in Berkeley in just over … Continue reading
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