Chronicle 345, which explores the relationship between the varieties of firstness, is now available.
-eric gans
May 14, 2007
May 11, 2007
No longer raining on the just and unjust alike
A headline in my local newspaper today proclaimed “Study finds storm [Katrina] hit blacks harder.”
Is anyone else getting tired of these studies, which seem to be appearing in our news now on a daily basis, that not everybody in America ends up in the same place? A local “scandal” in Utah is that hispanic children in the public schools do not do as well on achievement tests as whites. Public pressure forced the governor to appoint a commission to investigate. Yet there has been no evidence produced of discrimination in the school system, nor even any allegations of discrimination. Aren’t individuals responsible for themselves anymore? I fear we’re going to end up like the futuristic society described in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s stories, in which the smart, talented, and “advantaged” people are forced to wear various torture devices in order to “level the playing field.”
All we can do is make and enforce the laws against discrimination; after that individuals have to take responsibility for their own outcomes.
~Q
May 8, 2007
Chronicle 344, ‘Right and Left’
Chronicle 344 is a continuation of a running dialogue with Adam Katz concerning GA’s relationship to politics. A future Chronicle will deal with the question of freedom.
-eric gans
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May 2, 2007
April 29, 2007
What is originary?
I would like to try to clarify what is originary and what is not.
In one sense, all of culture is originary, in the sense that all of culture can be traced back to the originary scene. But that’s like the night in which all cows are black; the definition gives up what makes the word meaningful and useful. The originary is actually present at the originary scene, and includes the sacred, the sign, the aesthetic, and so on. Narrative is originary (at least implicitly), but literature, it seems to me, is not, since it evolved later. There have been many cultures without literature. (Myth, of course, is not literature.) By the same token, sacrifice is originary, but tragedy, as a form of literature, is not. The originary includes the fundamental anthropological categories, the cultural universals. What is not universal to all cultures everywhere cannot be originary.
