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The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction by Dr. Melissa M. Littlefield PhD

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:31:53 +0000

Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different from their predecessors? The Lying Brain is the first book to explore the cultural history of an array of lie detection technologies: their ideological assumptions, the scientific and fictional literatures that create and market them, and the literacies required for their interpretation.

By examining a rich archive of materials about lie detection—from science to science fiction—The Lying Brain demonstrates the interconnections of science, literature, and popular culture in the development and dissemination of deception detection in the American cultural imagination. As Melissa Littlefield demonstrates, neuroscience is not building a more accurate lie detector; it is simply recycling centuries-old ideologies about deception and its detection.

Ann: Leonardo Reviews online (May 2011)

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:43:18 +0000

Compression & Purity
by Will Alexander
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons
by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Soren Pold, Editors
Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman

The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s
by Malcolm Turvey
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

In Praise of Copying
by Marcus Boon
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Lumo: One Woman’s Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset by War
by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Paris 1919: Inside The Peace Talks That Changed The World
by Paul Cowan
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Octopus Time: Bellmer Painting
by Herbert Lust
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art
by Alison Syme
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change
Museum of Contemporary Photography and Glass Curtain Gallery
Reviewed by Elizabeth Straughan, Deborah Dixon and Harriet Hawkins

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk, Editors
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara

New Materials Received – May 2011
Compiled by Martyn Woodward

Now Available: L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:34:23 +0000

The third issue of Leonardo Reviews Quarterly is available to download as a PDF.
Please click here to start the download.

New Leonardo Reviews posted (January 2011)

admin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:40:32 +0000

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
(ISSN: 1559-0429)

3D Typography
by Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica

Fast Feminism
by Shannon Bell

and

Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, 1974-2007
by Suzanne Lacy
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Hypertext and the Female Imaginary
by Jaishree K. Odin
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Leo Villareal
by San Jose Museum of Art, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle

On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
by David Goodstein
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Nancy Spero: The Work
by Christopher Lyon
Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini

Perpetual Inventory
by Rosalind E. Krauss
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
by Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Surrounded By Waves
by Jean-Christophe Ribot, Director
Reviewed by Rob Harle

We Can Change The Weather – 100 Cases of Changeability
by Marleen Wynants
Reviewed by Edith Doove

Perceptual Psychology, not Neuroscience?

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:16:08 +0000

Tyler Burge argues that advances in perceptual psychology, not neuroscience, should be grabbing headlines. The article is here.

For example:

Neurobabble’s popularity stems partly from the view that psychology’s explanations are immature compared to neuroscience. Some psychology is indeed still far from rigorous. But neurobabble misses an important fact.

A powerful, distinctively psychological science matured over the last four decades. Perceptual psychology, pre-eminently vision science, should be grabbing headlines. This science is more advanced than many biological sciences, including much neuroscience. It is the first science to explain psychological processes with mathematical rigor in distinctively psychological terms. (Generative linguistics — another relatively mature psychological science — explains psychological structures better than psychological processes.)

Art and Justice

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:33:13 +0000

As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says the following about Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis: “As a legal tome the book is probably the only one ever to mingle Supreme Court citations with interviews with contemporary artists like Tom Otterness, and Jenny Holzer, both of whom have created permanent art installations for federal courthouses that tweak conceptions of justice.

Survey: Perception of Images

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:38:33 +0000

Amanda Wilson has put together a survey to collect some data about the perception of images. It is short, 7 questions. Here’s the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XRVRXJ6
I urge you to visit.

New Leonardo Reviews: Posted | June 2010

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:28:04 +0000

A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php>
by Ed Cohen
Reviewed by C.F. Black

Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/baetens_schafer.php>
by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Enactive Cinema – Simulatorium Eisensteinense <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/tikka_eisenstein.php>
by Pia Tikka
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/peterson_poole.html>
by Robert Poole
Reviewed by Stephen Petersen

Lewis’s Fifth Floor: A Department Story <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/sharma_king.php>
by Stephen King, Photographer; introduction by Deborah Mulhern
Reviewed by: Aparna Sharma

The Manga Guide™ to Calculus <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/mosher_kojima.php>
by Hiroyuki Kojima, Shin Togami, and Becom Co., LTD
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Moving Earth <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/ione_becker.php>
by Lars Becker-Larsen, Director
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/kade_rosen.php>
by Peter Rosen
Reviewed by Richard Kade

L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly
The first issue of Leonardo Reviews Quarterly is available to download as a PDF.
Please click here to start the download. <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/LRQ/LRQ%201.01.pdf>

New Materials Received May 2010 <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/LR%20NEW%20MATS%20ONLY%2006-2010.php>
Compiled by John Vines

Ann: Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 1.01 | June 2010

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:32 +0000

Now online here

Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the arts,
science and technology.

Leonardo Reviews publishes all reviews received from the panel monthly at www.leonardo.info. In addition, four times a year a selection of reviews is printed in Leonardo and now in this first issue of Leonardo Reviews Quarterly will be publishing an even larger selection as a PDF together with introductory material and overviews essays.

Now online here

Ann: Illuminating the Science: Art and Climate Change

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:12:38 +0000

Thursday, April 22 at 3pm + 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street, New York City
Free! First come, first served
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/events/s10/illuminating-science.html

The vision of climate change provided by the arts complements the analytical information given by the science. The landscape of numbers can be populated by dreams in the form of images, dance or music, leading to a more complete understanding of how our planet works. Join The Earth Institute, Columbia University; the Segal Center; and artists, scientists, and communication experts working across multiple disciplines in an inspirational, informative program to explore present and future connections between the arts and climate change science. In honor of Earth Day. Co-curated by Lisa Phillips.

Afternoon session at 3:00 p.m. will feature:

Gavin Schmidt, climatologist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Stephen Pekar, geologist, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York

Britta Riley, artist, entrepreneur

Jeremy Pickard, theatre artist

Moderated by Sabine Marx, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University.

Evening session at 6:30 p.m. will feature:

Klaus Lackner, geophysicist, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University

Katie Holten, visual artist

Ajit Subramaniam, biological oceanographer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Cynthia Hopkins, performing artist

Jon Braman, rapper-songwriter

Moderated by Lisa Phillips, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute, Columbia University