Ben C Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6468103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben C Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben C |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A comparison study of children's independent mobility in England and Australia
We compared independent mobility (freedom to move around the neighbourhood â or similar â without adult accompaniment) among English and Australian schoolchildren. Parents reported mobility licences granted to their children (e.g. allowing them to cross main roads alone) and accompaniment on local trips. Children reported travel mode to school. We examined associations between mobility licences and independent school journeys, and accompaniment o…
Rock Art and the Neurovisual Bases of Subjective Visual Phenomena
(2012). Rock Art and the Neurovisual Bases of Subjective Visual Phenomena. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 211-216
The eyes have it
Why do early artists draw eyes? The author argues that they reflect the evolution of the brain in its expressions of fear, love and behaviour, and invites us to apply this ethological approach more widely to the study of early symbolism
The Creative Ice Age Brain
Frank Zappa's Legacy
In "Frank Zappa's Legacy: just another Hoover?", Ben Watson reveals that when Frank Zappa referred to his "oeuvre" towards the end of his life, he pronounced the French word like "Hoover", the world's most famous brand of vacuum cleaner. Watson's essay starts with the proposition that Zappa's oeuvre is indeed a Hoover, a critical manoeuvre appropriate for Zappa's Dadaist disdain for cultural values. Establishment critics currently praise Zappa's …
Thesis Abstracts
Reply to JD Lewis-Williams
Dreaming phenomena and palaeoart
Dreaming phenomena provide an important means of inquiry into several aspects of palaeoart. This article proposes that dreaming phenomena provide a rationale and basis for the selection of certain images for depiction by cognitively modern humans in the past in contexts devoid of ethnographic insight. The relationship between dreaming phenomena and palaeoart is explored, including the significance of transitional states between sleep and wakefuln…
Fantasy and Judgement
Ben Watson Fantasy and Judgement: Adorno, Tolkien, Burroughs Fantasy in Marx and Adorno Writing in 1951, expanding on the Frankfurt School’s c r it iq u e o f US p o s it i v is m an d U SSR M ar x is m , Theodor Adorno had nothing but good to say of fantasy. Fantasy alone, today consigned to the realm of the unconscious and proscribed from knowledge as a childish, injudicious rudiment, can establish tha t rela t io n b etw een o b jec t s whi c …
How Far Can Too Far Go?' Or, When Polemic Can't Be Born
Adorno
Adorno: A Crltlcallntrodudlon Simon Jarvis Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998 Adorno On Music Robert W. Witkin London and New York: Routledge, 1998 Adorno's Aesthetics Of Music Max Paddison Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Reviewed by Ben Watson For those who believe that Marxism and academia can be productively combined, Theodor Adorno is a charismatic figure. Relentlessly on guard against anything that might ring of commercial duplicity, …
Frank Zappa as dadaist
Frank Zappa
A comparison study of children's independent mobility in England and Australia
We compared independent mobility (freedom to move around the neighbourhood â or similar â without adult accompaniment) among English and Australian schoolchildren. Parents reported mobility licences granted to their children (e.g. allowing them to cross main roads alone) and accompaniment on local trips. Children reported travel mode to school. We examined associations between mobility licences and independent school journeys, and accompaniment o…
The eyes have it
Why do early artists draw eyes? The author argues that they reflect the evolution of the brain in its expressions of fear, love and behaviour, and invites us to apply this ethological approach more widely to the study of early symbolism
Dreaming phenomena and palaeoart
Dreaming phenomena provide an important means of inquiry into several aspects of palaeoart. This article proposes that dreaming phenomena provide a rationale and basis for the selection of certain images for depiction by cognitively modern humans in the past in contexts devoid of ethnographic insight. The relationship between dreaming phenomena and palaeoart is explored, including the significance of transitional states between sleep and wakefuln…
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa as dadaist
Adorno
Adorno: A Crltlcallntrodudlon Simon Jarvis Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998 Adorno On Music Robert W. Witkin London and New York: Routledge, 1998 Adorno's Aesthetics Of Music Max Paddison Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Reviewed by Ben Watson For those who believe that Marxism and academia can be productively combined, Theodor Adorno is a charismatic figure. Relentlessly on guard against anything that might ring of commercial duplicity, …
How Far Can Too Far Go?' Or, When Polemic Can't Be Born
Fantasy and Judgement
Ben Watson Fantasy and Judgement: Adorno, Tolkien, Burroughs Fantasy in Marx and Adorno Writing in 1951, expanding on the Frankfurt School’s c r it iq u e o f US p o s it i v is m an d U SSR M ar x is m , Theodor Adorno had nothing but good to say of fantasy. Fantasy alone, today consigned to the realm of the unconscious and proscribed from knowledge as a childish, injudicious rudiment, can establish tha t rela t io n b etw een o b jec t s whi c …
Dreaming phenomena and palaeoart
Dreaming phenomena provide an important means of inquiry into several aspects of palaeoart. This article proposes that dreaming phenomena provide a rationale and basis for the selection of certain images for depiction by cognitively modern humans in the past in contexts devoid of ethnographic insight. The relationship between dreaming phenomena and palaeoart is explored, including the significance of transitional states between sleep and wakefuln…
Reply to JD Lewis-Williams
Thesis Abstracts
The Creative Ice Age Brain
Frank Zappa's Legacy
In "Frank Zappa's Legacy: just another Hoover?", Ben Watson reveals that when Frank Zappa referred to his "oeuvre" towards the end of his life, he pronounced the French word like "Hoover", the world's most famous brand of vacuum cleaner. Watson's essay starts with the proposition that Zappa's oeuvre is indeed a Hoover, a critical manoeuvre appropriate for Zappa's Dadaist disdain for cultural values. Establishment critics currently praise Zappa's …
The eyes have it
Why do early artists draw eyes? The author argues that they reflect the evolution of the brain in its expressions of fear, love and behaviour, and invites us to apply this ethological approach more widely to the study of early symbolism
Rock Art and the Neurovisual Bases of Subjective Visual Phenomena
(2012). Rock Art and the Neurovisual Bases of Subjective Visual Phenomena. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 211-216
A comparison study of children's independent mobility in England and Australia
We compared independent mobility (freedom to move around the neighbourhood â or similar â without adult accompaniment) among English and Australian schoolchildren. Parents reported mobility licences granted to their children (e.g. allowing them to cross main roads alone) and accompaniment on local trips. Children reported travel mode to school. We examined associations between mobility licences and independent school journeys, and accompaniment o…
Art (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (3 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works)