BENJAMIN BENNETT-CARPENTER

Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

My work engages rhetorical, psychological, and behavioral strategies within particular cultural niches. These niches include interpersonal & academic discourse, society & religion, art & media, and particular personal microcosms.

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

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

Recent / current projects include:

Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience (Brill | Rodopi, 2018)

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

Explaining Jesus: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of a Phenomenon (Lexington Books | Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)

"[an] interesting and well-developed book....worth the effort to read it to understand fellow humans in ways [one] might not have thought of before." --Willem B. Drees, Dean, School of Humanities & Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, and former editor, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science

"...neither reductive nor dismissive...[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 to Live the Life One Has to Live" (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)