http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/06/30/neuroanthropology-and-the-contemporary-culture-of-entertainment/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/06/30/neuroanthropology-and-the-contemporary-culture-of-entertainment/#comment-6114 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:48 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3348#comment-6114 [...] For our latest onsite, you can see Can Video Games Actually Be Good For You?, Robbie Cooper – Immersion, and the Contemporary Culture of Entertainment. [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/06/30/neuroanthropology-and-the-contemporary-culture-of-entertainment/#comment-6059 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:18:55 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3348#comment-6059 [...] Neuroanthropology and the Contemporary Culture of Entertainment [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/06/30/neuroanthropology-and-the-contemporary-culture-of-entertainment/#comment-6022 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:57:19 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3348#comment-6022 sounds a lot like Debordian ‘spectacle’ too

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/06/30/neuroanthropology-and-the-contemporary-culture-of-entertainment/#comment-6016 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:45:27 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3348#comment-6016 Interesting but I’d like to point that while in a ritual we recognize a meaning from the outside, in the play we just act what is meant (very often groundlessly, without meaning or without awareness of the meaning).We are living in a society of compulsive entertainment, probably based on nothing (maybe exactly as all the other human society).Therefore I suspect that a rigorous inspection of play and entertainment will result in…nothing, not due to the superficiality of our society, but simply because “nothing” is the ground of play.Of course the process of this inspection could be tremendously fecund and we could learn hugely.And also we could have a lot of fun.

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