Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark Changizi BenBella Books, Dallas, TX, 75231 pp.242, illus. b/w. Trade, $16.95 US ISBN: 978-1-935618-53-9. Reviewed by Richard Kade Ubiquitous Iconoclast Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1622 USA ubiq_icon@hotmail.com   (Note: The first edition of this book inadvertently went to press in June 2011 before […]

  Conjugal Visit by Charles Krafft Exhibition: 9 September through 8 October 2016 at Zoya Tommy Gallery 4102 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77004-4808 www.ZoyaTommy.com Reviewed by Richard Kade Ubiquitous Iconoclast Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1622 USA ubiq_icon@hotmail.com Seattle–basedartist, Charles Krafft, explains that Conjugal Visit is “a body of work with a prison theme” he prepared last year […]

Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship by Michael A. Arbib (ed) The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 2013 pp. 662, illus., col, b/w Hardcover: $50.00 Short: £34.95 ISBN-10: 0262018101 | ISBN-13: 978-0262018104 Reviewed by Richard Kade Ubiquitous Iconoclast Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1622 USA ubiq_icon@hotmail.com An old rule of thumb states that the number co-authors of […]

Website Review: BRAIN Initiative www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/brain-initiative www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/02/brain-initiative-challenges-researchers-unlock-mysteries-human-mind Reviewed by Ubiquitous Iconoclast ubiq_icon@hotmail.com In much the same way that the proverbial broken clock is correct for one brief moment every twelve hours, the ObaMornic White House might, however unwittingly, finally have hit upon a noteworthy idea with their so-called “BRAIN Initiative” (the first word of which is […]

Foucault contre lui-même (Foucault Against Himself) Film by François Caillat [with Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman, Arlette Farge, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie] Icarus Films, New York, NY, USA – © 2014 52 mins., col. [in French with English subtitles] Distributor’s website: www.icarusfilms.com/new2014/fou.html Reviewed by Ubiquitous Iconoclast ubiq_icon@hotmail.com Do not ask who I am and do not ask […]

Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research by Jennifer M. Windt The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, London, 2015 pp. 978, illus., color and b/w ISBN: 978-0-262-02867-7. Reviewed by: Ubiquitous Iconoclast ubiq_icon@hotmail.com What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after starting from midnight […]