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 for me 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 organization & reproduction/growth.

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

I do this through observing, experiencing, listening, talking, watching, reading, writing, and coaching. 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 from the Visible Evidence organization

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, and author of When God Talks Back

"Memento Vivere: Life, Now" (in-progress)

"Memetica Ecologica: Rhetorics of Information and the Dream of Reverse Engineering Nature and Culture" (in-progress)

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)

Coaching contact:
Sollars & Associates, Inc.
1777 Axtell Dr #100
Troy, Michigan 48084 USA
bbennettcarpenter@sollarsassociates.com
+1 248 787 0855 (office contact)
+1 248 854 8340 (mobile)