Articles @ 3QD

2024

• Affective Technology, Part 2: Emotion recollected in tranquility
• Affective Technology, Part 1: Poems and Stories
• Pop-Tarts Re-frosted: An allegory about creativity in a corporatized world?
• The Irises Are Blooming Early This Year
• Thirteen Ways To Think About An A.I.
• Western Metaphysics is Imploding. Will We Raise a Phoenix from The Ashes? [Catalytic AI]
• On the 12/8 Path with Charlie Keil
• Some Scattered Thoughts about Maestro, Music, and the Meaning of It All

2023

• Aye Aye, Cap’n! Investing in AI is like buying shares in a whaling voyage captained by a man who knows all about ships and little about whales.
  
• On the Road with The Out of Control Rhythm and Blues Band
  
• Next year in Jerusalem: The brilliant ideas and radiant legacy of Miriam Lipschutz Yevick [in relation to current AI debates]
  
• A New Counter Culture: From the Reification of IQ to the AI Apocalypse
  
• Children in Search of the Dance, Some Informal Ethnographic Analysis
  
• Black, White, and Blues: Notes on Music in America
  
• Mind Hacks R Us: The Psychedelic Computer
  
• Beyond artificial intelligence?
  
• World, Mind, Learnability, Large Language Models, and the Metaphysical Structure of the Cosmos
  
• From “Kubla Khan” through GPT and beyond
  
• ChatGPT is a miracle of rare device. Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
  
• A day in the life of Kimono Mom and Sutan
  
• SBF from Girard to Dawkins to Xanadu

2022

• Conversing with ChatGPT about Jaws, Mimetic Desire, and Sacrifice
• Dance to the Music: The Kids Owned the Day
• All roads lead to Ukraine [war] – Scattered fragments of a [nuclear] memoir
• On the Cult of AI Doom
• Thriving and Jiving Among Friends and Family: The Place of Music in Everyday Life
• Some Aspects of the Urban Pastoral
• Welcome to the Fourth Arena – The World is Gifted
• How me, 2 young girls, their father, and our imaginary friends discovered the Metaverse and thereby saved the world, a True Story
• Tell me about the blues
• Analyze This! AI meets Jerry Seinfeld
• Shark City Sacrifice: A Girardian reading of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws
• Roll over Beethoven: Where’d classical music go?
• My Early Jazz Education: From the Firehouse to Louis Armstrong

2021

• Sonic Transportation: It shook me, the light!
• Reality, what an idea! Here comes the Metaverse
• In Praise of Women’s Hands
• Timothy Morton Meditates on the Millennium Falcon and Futurality
• 51 Pacific and the Green Villain: Welcome to the Fun House
• From “Forbidden Planet” to “The Terminator”: 1950s techno-utopia and the dystopian future
• A perverse sense of intellectual honor is driving humanities scholars to disciplinary seppuku: Some personal reflections on the book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
• To Understand the Mind We Must Build One, A Review of Models of the Mind – Bye Bye René, Hello Giambattista
• Born to Groove: Up from Mud and Back to Our Roots
• Religion, Legitimacy, and Government in America, A Just-So Story  Sukiyaki and beyond: Hiromi Uehara, music, war and peace, Chick Corea, and others Tectonic Tremors, Ghost Dancing, and the Certification Riots
  
• Seinfeld On His Craft, Or: Comedy As A Path To Metaphysical Grace 
  

2020

• Jacob Collier, a 21st Century Mozart?
• Some vignettes in the wake of a historic election [16 tons, where are we now?]
• Some Varieties of Light
• Direct Brain-to-Brain Thought Transfer is a High Tech Fantasy that Won’t Work
• It took 13 years, but Jersey City finally has a poured-concrete SK8park – A story of local grass roots politics
• An Electric Conversation with Hollis Robbins on the Black Sonnet Tradition, Progress, and AI, with Guest Appearances by Marcus Christian and GPT-3
• From Progress Studies to Progress: Through decadence and beyond
• A Fantasia on Irises
• Can the pandemic serve America as the cradle for a rebirth of civil society?
• Photos for a Time of Fever
• Connecting with the Jazz Tradition: Studying with Frank Foster in Buffalo
• TwoSet Violin, the best thing in music education since sliced bread
• Of Ants And Humans: Some Principles Of Social Organization

2019

• Stations of the mind: Om to Eureka and beyond
• Some notes on computers, AI, and the mind
• Time travelers we are, each and all
• Virtual Feudalism in the Twenty-First Century
• “It got adults off your back” – Richard Macksey remembered
• An Improviser Is Born
• Up-River! The adventure of reality from Haggard to Conrad to Coppola to Bourdain
• From tears to ecstasy, some aspects of musical performance
• Seder-Masochism: Nina Paley began at the end and ended at the beginning
• Thomas Naylor’s Paths Peace in a world of small states
• First Man and a sense of the sacred
• Neural Weather, An Informal Defense of Psychoanalytic Ideas
• Is FDR the capital of the SK8board nation?

2018 

• Wonderful Rainbow Aesthetics: The Song of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
• Bergen Arches: Living for the City
• World Island: Zeal Means Hope [The World’s Got Talent]
• Feed Me Donald! – Trump, Musk, The Internet, And Monsters From The Id
• Through A 3D Glass Starkly, New York 2140 Redux
• Three Children Of The Space Age: Elon Musk, Freeman Dyson, And Me
• Disney’s Dumbo, Tripping The Elephants Electric
• Grappling at the edges of reality with Joe Rogan
• Gojira 1954: No More Nukes
• Leapin’ Lizards: Three Lessons from Marching Band OR here at New Savanna
• A look under the hood through the insane musical genius that is Mnozil Brass OR here at New Savanna
• A post-apocalyptic heist: Commentary on a passage from New York 2140 OR here at New Savanna
• The Day Pope Gregory Met Sidney Bechet and the Walls Came Tumbling Down

2017

• Moretti and the Stanford Literary Lab: Computational criticism in two senses and the prospect of a new approach to literary studies, a downloadable version with additions
• Old School: Torpor and Stupor at Johns Hopkins OR here at New Savanna
• My Summer Job Working In Coal – Or, How I Learned About Class In America OR here at New Savanna
• Donald Trump is no Leroy Jethro Gibbs
• Ghost Dancing in the USA
• In Favor of Small States – Are Meganations too Big to Succeed?
• Kenan Malik Asks Some Questions about Culture and Its Appropriation
• Other People’s Culture and the Problem of Identity
• Why Disney’s Fantasia is a Masterpiece
• Tezuka's Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) and the Japanese Take on Robots
• Louis Armstrong and the Snake-Charmin’ Hoochie-Coochie Meme
• Stuck in Traffic: The Story of Civilization
• To Boldly Go To The Edge....Science In Everyday Life

2016

• Prelude and Exordium to the Ordination, Coronation, Inauguration, and Installation of the Grand High Singularity, Donald of Trump, Ruler of Universes Known, Unknown, Unimaginable and Phantasmagoric
• Exposed! Daniel Everett Shines a Light on the Mind’s Dark Matter
• We’re All in This Together: Life as Jamie Knows It
• Martha Mills: Lawyer, Activist, Judge
• Markos Vamvakaris: A Pilgrim on Ancient Byzantine Roads
• Peace is Everybody’s Business, Nobody’s Job
• A Brexit State of Mind: The Vision Thing
• Grandpa, Proust, Ulysses and World War II
• Ecstasy at Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society
• Break! How I Busted Three Trumpeters Out of a Maryland Prison
• Jerry Seinfeld and Barack Obama Have a Meeting of the Minds
• Three Moments in America’s Conversation on Race
• Secrets of Pink Elephants Revealed

2015

• The United States Needs a Department of Peace
• Why Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises is Not Morally Repugnant
• Have the Internets Rotted My Brain and Wrecked My Mind?
• Robert Frost, Time Traveler: The Road Not Taken
• A White Blackman
• Obama’s Pinckney Eulogy and the Place of Religious Discourse in Civic Life
• Pontifex as Bridge Builder: the Encyclical Laudato Si
• The Next 100 Years in the Human Sciences, a Reply to Frank Wilczek's Remarks about Physics
• OK to Destroy: Jersey City's Graffiti Jam of April 2015
• The Magic of the Bell and a Glimpse of Spirits
• Cultural Styles in the 21st Century, or the High Tech Debt to Africa
• Charlie Keil's Simple Appeal to the Pope on Behalf of the Future
• Western Culture is an Ideological Fiction, and so are the Rest

2014

• Free-Floating Anxiety, Teens and Security Theatre
• American Craziness: Where it Came from and Why it Won't Work Anymore
• Evolving to the Future, the Web of Culture
• Macroanalysis and the Directional Evolution of Nineteenth Century English-Language Novels
• It's Time to Change the World, Again
• Sing Me a Song of Hyperobjects: Starting Over with Humans and Other Creatures in the 21st Century CE 
• Graffiti is the Most Important Art Form of the Last Half-Century...
• Graffiti and the Spirit of the Place
• The Only Game in Town: Digital Criticism Comes of Age 
• Bundling, Dream Space, Love and the Farmer's Daughter
• Some Varieties of Musical Experience
• An Astonishing Tale about the Origins of Golf: A True Story
• Charlie Keil: Groovologist

2013

• Two Problems for the Human Sciences, and Two Metaphors