BENJAMIN BENNETT-CARPENTER

Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

My work engages rhetorical, psychological, and behavioral strategies.

These strategies operate within particular cultural niches.

Generally these cultural niches include:

-interpersonal & academic discourse
-societies & religions
-arts & media, and
-particular personal microcosms.

Specifically I am interested in how we human beings "compose our world(s)" in relation to mortality, spirituality/secularity, creativity/life, and conceptions of information reproduction and organization.

My central efforts seek to understand and negotiate what I see as individual and collective struggles for survival, well-being, and inspiration in a complex universe.

I do this through observing, experiencing, listening, talking, reading, watching, and writing. Action may lead to ideas. Ideas may lead to action. In the middle of all this, we feel the moment.

Recent / current projects include:

Death in Documentaries (Brill, 2018)

A Recommended Book on Non-Fiction/Documentary Film and Video Published in 2018 from Visible Evidence

Explaining Jesus (Lexington Books, 2019)

"an interesting and well-developed book...."

--Willem B. Drees, Dean, School of Humanities & Digital Sciences, Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and former editor, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science

"...a remarkable intellectual journey. This book speaks to Christians and non-Christians alike."

--T.M. Luhrmann, professor of anthropology and psychology, Stanford University

"Memento Vivere: Things, Tools, and Knowledge for Life" (in-progress)

"Memetica: Rhetorics of Information and the Dream of Reverse Engineering Nature and Culture" (ongoing)

Contact:
39221 Woodward Ave #107
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304 USA
bbennettcarpenter@gmail.com
+1 248 854 8340

University contact:
Department of Writing & Rhetoric
Oakland University
Dodge Hall #166
118 Library Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309 USA
bennettc@oakland.edu
+1 248 370 2746 (office contact)
+1 248 854 8340 (mobile)