dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social

Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/a… via @newleftreview

and here is the list of contributors to cognitionandculture.net/index.html

The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers. cognitionandculture.net/index.html

Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies aeon.co/essays/how-do-…

Read: theguardian.com/world/article/…

Bernard Lortat-Jacob, ami chaleureux, formidable ethnomusicologue (lortajablog.fr), est mort. Il m'avait accompagné chez les Dorzé en 1974, avait étudié leurs polyphonies, et produit un disque exemplaire

In the just lauched Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclope…), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors oecs.mit.edu/pub/mfsrxxgb

Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world aje.io/08arr7 via @AJEnglish

Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) "Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective" osf.io/preprints/psya… via @OSFramework

Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!

@RajThamotheram @danwilliamsphil @hugoreasoning @Sacha_Altay I don't remember saying these things. I don't think I did.

@danwilliamsphil @dansperber @hugoreasoning @Sacha_Altay Which essay? A link?

Brilliant essay on misinformation by @mnvrsngh. - Humans are not gullible - Beliefs are extremely complicated. People often sincerely and passionately endorse highly compartmentalised beliefs. - Misinformation is often a symptom of deeper social problems. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I am very excited to share with you the news that our book ‘The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation’ is coming out in exactly 2 months. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547802/… 1/5

Marchons contre la loi immigration le 21 janvier 21janvier.fr

Watch “for Refaat Alareer” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/890258497?ref=…

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Dubosc writes: "...Their main interest is their brevity and, at the same time, their reflexivity. An intellectual and moral distance that I think we need in this age of viral videos and blind judgments. Of course, I take sides with Franz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Edward Saïd."

Here are some thirty very short films shot during the Second Intifada in the West Bank and Gaza by the documentary filmmaker Dominique Dubosc: PALESTINIAN STORIES : vimeo.com/showcase/10804…

Voici une trentaine de petits films que Dominique Dubosc avait tournés pendant la Seconde Intifada en Cisjordanie et à Gaza. HISTOIRES PALESTINIENNES : vimeo.com/showcase/10804…

This tribute to the late John Tooby, one of my intellectual heroes, written by another one of my intellectual heroes, @sapinker, brought tears to my eyes. Well worth a read. nautil.us/psychology-los…