Or towards a materialization of the soul? Can everything be reduced to mere neuroscience? Of course not, but an article by Roger Scruton in the Spectator argues against neuroaesthetics as a legitimate discipline, while neuroscientists such as Semir Zeki and Eric Kandel, whose work is featured in an article by Alexander Kafka in the  , show ies ignore recent dcoveries ir own peril.

Curators have the great privilege of access to materials that relate to the artworks in their care. Although scholarly researchers can sometimes gain access to this material, it is rarely shown in public. For the Whitechapel exhibit, organizers have persuaded the Tate to show the contents of the files and the result is an extraordinarily informative display. 

Human existence is defined by a set of “natural” paces and cycles: paces of walking, talking, breathing, and sensory perception, and cycles of wakefulness and sleep, activity and inactivity. Enabled and constrained by the capabilities of the human body, these spatiotemporal, perceptual, and . . . .

"The computer is lifeless, but there's a sheer joy in manual typing," From the LA Times: the death of the typewritten word is at hand--even in India.

"Knowing the past means knowing what people carried in their pockets, what they did with their sewage, where their dogs slept," says Scott Herring in the Chronicle Review. Could grounding the study of literature in objects offer a lifeline to a tired discipline, divorced (at least in public opinion) from reality?