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Hi Everybody, The 4th annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conference (GASC) 2010 is shaping up to be a very exciting event, with presentations from many of the regular Anthropoetic contributors and several first-time attendees. We are all looking forward to Eric Gans’ Plenary lecture on “Haven’t We Always Been Modern,” a lecture in dialogue with [...] Continue reading GASC 2010 Update I’m up again at zombies contentions (a rewriting of my recent post here, without the theory). You can find your way, can’t you? Another post at zombies contentions: http://zombiecontentions.com/2010/05/11/the-pot-calling-the-kettle-mob/ Here is my proposal for that International Conference on Anti-semitism I mentioned on the GAlist a while back. We’ll see what they make of it. This paper will offer an account of contemporary anti-semitism in terms of Eric Gans’s “originary hypothesis” regarding the origin of language and culture. The originary hypothesis extends and revises [...] Continue reading Anti-semitism and the Victimary Era I’ve got a new post over at zombies contentions, if anyone’s interested. The relations between the gift, the informal, and the formal, capitalist economy can bear a bit more discussion. It is not quite right to call the informal economy a gift economy—transactions will be carried out regularly with money, often the currency used in the larger society, I would imagine, but there’s no need to [...] Continue reading The Right of the Idiom continued, addendum We could say that De Soto’s argument for formalizing the informal economy (see my discussion in the first installment of “The Right of the Idiom”) is an argument for integrating the gift economy into the money economy. It’s a bit more complex, though: the informal economy is not a pre-capitalist economic order “transcended” by [...] Continue reading The Right of the Idiom, continued Not much new here for GAniks, but here’s my latest post over at zombies contentions: http://zombiecontentions.com/2010/04/18/how-about-victimary-progressivism/ 
Anthropoetics’ Spring issue 15:2 is now available at http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1502/index.htm [...] Continue reading Anthropoetics’ Spring issue 15:2 now available! http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1502/index.htm Hi Everybody, The 2010 Generative Anthropology Summer Conference Website has a tentative schedule available online. A couple of late submissions are not on there yet, but be assured that they will be included in the final program. If you see any errors, please let us know. http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/pgoldman/GASC_2010/program.html See you in Salt Lake City, Utah [...] Continue reading GASC 2010 Update |
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