#book revue

[acmeoop]

The King Of Swing Prototype Poster Cel (1991)

[aaaaanas1]

the ink and paint team sends its regards

[randompanimation]

Looney Tunes Song References

Decided to track down some of the song references in the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts.

Book Revue (1946) Stop That Dancing Up There

Long-Haired Hare (1949) When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba

Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Rag Mop

Back Alley Oproar (1948)

The song being sung is Angel In Disguise.

But it's in the style of Spike Jones.

[scrumptioussophieluminary]

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

Virginia Woolf " *A Room of One's Own* "

🪻💜

[taxlthomas]

couple’a drawings before I go to sleep

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I really should watch Owl House. I know I’m going to enjoy it. But I think there are too many things in my life and my brain right now…

[lilithsaintcrow]

A Reading Rest Weekend

The effort to not work all weekend, swimming against natural inclinations (or just my imposter syndrome) was bloody well taxing. The kids had threatened to tie me to the couch with a book and a plate of fried cheese sticks if I didn’t take some time off; I suppose I’ve been getting twitchy. I did get some reading done, finishing Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which was…

[drawdownbooks]

NEW at Draw Down: Revue Faire no. 42, 43, 44, and 45 This anthology collection brings together four separate issues, including N° 44 — "A conundrum: the visual communication of neuroscience" by James Langdon

Neuroscience is a visual science. Our understanding of the brain’s biology originates in the beautiful and pioneering images of neurons and dendrites produced by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi in the late nineteenth century. In recent decades neuroscience has embraced computational imaging. We have witnessed dynamic images of living brains produced by fMRI, and intricate, colorful representations of “neutral connectomics” that promise ultimately to reveal the ‘wiring diagram’ of the human brain. Such images are not merely the documentation of scientific work; they are themselves primary sites of research. The images are the science.

And yet the interaction of neuroscience with mainstream visual culture tends toward the simplistic and the amateurish. Science communication seems to regard graphic design and art direction skeptically, preferring to contextualize its technical images with a collage of cartoons, internet memes, and generic high-tech stock photography. The emerging neurotechnology industry, by contrast, adopts the visual language of corporate “big tech.” Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Neuralink project presents its experimental neural implant technology as if it were an innocent commercial appliance. These observations are urgent. Inevitably neuroscience will soon yield opportunities for technologically augmenting the human brain that could further entrench inequality and stratification in our society. This text is not a call for more friendly interdisciplinary collaboration between graphic design and neuroscience, but a pointed critical assessment of the visual literacy of one field from the perspective of another.

Published by Editions Empire Bilingual, in French and English

148 pages total, each issue separately bound, b&w and color images, 8.25 × 11.75 inches

ISBN: 979-1-09-599142-7

[ahalliance]

jstor and google books (!!!) are the only fucking sites i can tolerate when searching for academic sources atp

[travsd]

Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Guest Book Review By Cheryl Rice

So much for labor saving! One of the happy benefits of having written a popular book (and now a popular blog) is that I have accrued pen pals all over this great land of ours. Hudson Valley Poet Cheryl Rice has been among the most valued for many a long year now. She suggested a review of this book and I lobbed the task back to her….and of course what do I want to do after reading the review?…

[anissapierce]

I think at this point ive thought more abt book revue than clampedid.... ive definitely put more man hours of research into it. Im considering watching a movie from the 40s to see if i can pinpoint if the short is lampooning a specific actor for two seconds max. Im going to have to watch the danny kaye show because one of the paintings featured in book revue ends up on his show but obviously i cant find anything about that online. Im also going to have to watch a musical comedy to figure out if they straightened out a character danny kaye originally played on broadway or if he even sings the same song. Because none of this information is available online. I listened to danny kayes first album only to find out that its literally the last track on there that i needed to reference.

[jean-gabib]

[magicaldogtoto]

I thought about giving numbers and titles for the various worlds in my fanfic, but since I haven’t settled on them, yet, I just use these nicknames:

Yachiyo’s World: Based on Magia Record (primarily as it appeared in my older fanfics).

Amare’s World: Based on an old RP universe some friends and I made back in 2019. Contains traits of MagiReco, Revue Starlight, and the Oz book series.

Wraith World: Based on PMMM post-series/Pre-Rebellion.

Unknown Worlds: The worlds where those two Homuras, Campanella, Kuroe, and the Super Witch come from.

[transmutationisms]

hello !! do u have any recommendations for books that demystify intelligence ? and/or historical analyses that pertain to its scientific construction ? I'm actually not picky at all, an extended reading list if you already have one available would be perfectly fine. I hope I'm being clear in my request bc English isn't my 1st language... if not, sorry

<3 bisou

for sure -- there's lots of writing about the historical context of IQ in particular, as well as other measures of 'intelligence' (binet-simon, galton, etc); there's also a lot of writing that's on specific national and regional contexts. so i'm not pulling anything close to an exhaustive list here lol but these are some i found at least somewhat helpful. im presuming you're a french speaker but if not just disregard the ones in french lol

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould -- this is probably the no. 1 recommendation you will receive in english on this topic. it's not necessarily crucial if you've read other historical literature critiquing psychometry, but if not, it's a very solid text and is intended to be an easy entry point into the topic, so it can be a convenient place to start if you just need a leading-off point

‘The Intelligent and the Rest’: British Mensa and the Contested Status of High Intelligence (2020). Schregel, Susanne. History of the Human Sciences 33.5, 12-36. DOI: 10.1177/0952695120970029

Child prodigies in Paris in the belle époque: Between child stars and psychological subjects (2021). Graus, Andrea. History of Psychology 24.3, 255-274. DOI: 10.1037/hop0000192

Searching for South Asian Intelligence: Psychometry in British India, 1919--1940 (2014). Setlur, Shivrang. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 50.4, 359-375. DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.21692

La mesure de l'intelligence: Jeux des forces vitales et réductionnisme cérébral selon les anthropologues français (1860-1880) (1994). Blanckaert, Claude. Ludus Vitalis: Revista de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Vida 2.3, 35-68

The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750--1940 (2007). Carson, John S. Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691017158

Ambiguities of Racial Science in Colonial Africa: The African Research Survey and the Fields of Eugenics, Social Anthropology, and Biomedicine, 1920--1940 (2005). Tilley, Helen. In Science across the European Empires, 1800--1950 (ed. Stuchtey, Benedikt. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0199276292), pp. 245–287

Ribot, Binet, and the Emergence from the Anthropological Shadow (2007). Staum, Martin S. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43, 1-18

La mesure en psychologie de Binet à Thurstone (1997). Martin, Olivier. Revue de Synthèse 118, 457-493

W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift (2006). Farland, Maria. American Quarterly 58, 1017-1044

The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (2018). Staub, Michael E. University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 9781469643595

After Binet: French intelligence testing, 1900-1950 (1992). Schneider, William H. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 28, 111-132

Woman's Brain, Man's Brain: Feminism and Anthropology in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2003). Sowerwinea, Charles. Women's History Review 12, 289-308