The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawl...
The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, ...
...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will ...
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasur...
Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either love or hate, were but pleasant tales for long winter’s nights. Bound souls, two sides of the same counter, together th...
Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
