December 2008

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The limits to swapping bodies with a box

The fascinating new study “If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping” published this week by the Swedish researchers Henrik Ehrsson and Valeria Petkova has been making the rounds and drawing some press – see Neurophilosophy and Neuroanthropology for background and explanation - but what seems to have been lost in all the excitement [...]

Applying Marx to Social Therapeutics

Though their reading seems a little forced, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman of the East Side Institute are finding Marx (specifically, The German Ideology) useful for developing a “revolutionary” performance social therapeutics:
“Our own work can be described as an effort to make therapeutics a way of life. We also describe our work as building community [...]

The great (social-evolutionary) divide?

According to the recent Times Higher Education Supplement article on the “The Great Divide” between social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists,
“This division dates back to the 1970s, when eminent American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (now retired emeritus professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara) presented his work on the Yanomami tribes of Venezuela in the context [...]

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