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...grave, as is evidenced by the playlists of the largest AM radio stations, the Number One hit of the summer, "Funkytown," and the continued success reported by discos across the country. Rock critics dislike disco because it is essentially sensual or affective music completely dissociated from the cerebral cortex; it is antiintellectual, whereas rock and roll, and particularly New Wave, is intellectual, or at least can be intellectualized about, which is exactly the business of a rock critic. In the crudest sense, you can fuck to disco and you can't fuck to rock and roll. For that, at least...
Some pieces are so lightly touched that they are almost objets trouvés. But in all of them, the same intense sensibility is at work, making a mere saw cut register as drawing against the dull cortex of the rock, hollowing out a shadow, drawing a surface tight, making the eye aware of what mass and density lie beneath the surface. It is not a spectacular performance, but its mastery in playful thought, and collaboration with material, is close to absolute...
...Visual Cortex: Where Theory Meets Experiment in the Central Nervous System--Leon Cooper, Brown, Jefferson...
...patterns of custom, expectation, even divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...
...DEBATE over bans, quotas and saving the whales, the intriguing possibility that these creatures may be highly intelligent is being overlooked. The cerebral cortex, the part of the brain thought to be responsible for intelligence and sense perception, is well-developed in the whale and resembles man's cortex in several ways. (For more information on this subject see Mind in the Waters, ed. by Joan McIntyre.) The size and complexity of the Cetacean's brain, though not yet undeniably linked to an ability to reason and feel, raises tantalizing questions. Can whales live? Do they have an oral history...