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John O. McGinnis’ “Age of the Empirical” in the new (June/July 06 http://www.policyreview.org/137/mcginnis.html) issue of Policy Review raises some important questions for Generative Anthropology.  McGinnis argues that the increase in information available to social science researchers along with the greater efficacy of computing technology are getting us to the point where consensus on good policy will [...]

Continue reading Quantity

I assume none of us Generative Anthropologists would assert that the “Jersey Girls” are enjoying to an unprecedented degree their husbands’ deaths; or, to take an earlier example, that Timothy McVeigh should have targeted the New York Times building.  However, a rather prominent Generative Anthropologist did characterize the 2004 Presidential election as a contest between [...]

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Steyn on the blonde commentatrix‘s assault on victimary thinking:

Senator Clinton jumped in to denounce the incendiary blond commentatrix as (dread word) “mean-spirited.” Maybe so. But in 2004, the Jersey Girls publicly endorsed John Kerry’s campaign for president: they inserted themselves into the political arena and chose sides. That being so, to demand that they be [...]

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GA enters the 21st century with Wikipedia entries from Peter Goldman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_Anthropology

And chip technology continues to advance along with GA’s digital dissemination:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/technology/20chip.html

Within the originary configuration, we are all located on the margin, sharing our love and resentment toward the center.  The effect of the history of de-ritualization, grounded in the Judaic and then Christian revelations, with its unremitting resentment toward the “Big Man” who seizes the ritual center has, in modern democracy, accentuated the resentment at [...]

Continue reading GA as the Thinking of the Center

The Vancouver GA group — a.k.a. Sparagmos! — welcomes you to the blog and invites you to get to know us.

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1035

(Dawn talks about Richard Ramirez, LA serial killer)

-eric gans

By way of keeping up with the times and permitting more permanent contributions than the GA listserv: the GABlog!

-eric gans