tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post4098023181766502136..comments2023-10-06T00:52:04.371-07:00Comments on news from the zona: humpty dumpty in the zonaRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-47525419879087650102009-03-11T12:36:00.000-07:002009-03-11T12:36:00.000-07:00hey roger - i saw back on limited that you were tr...hey roger - i saw back on limited that you were trying to use taussig to wrestle with the magic of economy, past the simplistic marxist ideology/fake-consciousness fetish argument.. its great but we must ask ourselves still what kind of work say, "devil & commodity fetishism" does in reinforcing ultimately the structures across culture instead of challenging epistemology; that is devil/commodity/fetishism doesn't really move to new notions of materiality, of thingliness, so much as argue that capitalism kinda "accorded" with extant structures of what economy constituted... but i do love him, what can i say - i love anything that has to do with faith and crazy shit and humanity. i have plenty of references, i assure you, if you're ever interested, but i love your work.. in case you were wondering, you are much more an anthropologst than many anthropologists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-17641769704102928552009-03-10T20:42:00.001-07:002009-03-10T20:42:00.001-07:00Oh, and ps, I go into this argument in more detail...Oh, and ps, I go into this argument in more detail in the comment on the post above this one.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-19601874969569412302009-03-10T20:42:00.000-07:002009-03-10T20:42:00.000-07:00Yoni, thanks for the link. I will definitely check...Yoni, thanks for the link. I will definitely check out Graeber. By the way, what do you think of Taussig?Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-52964257160207572432009-03-10T19:44:00.000-07:002009-03-10T19:44:00.000-07:00and also, since i consider myself your anonymous-i...and also, since i consider myself your anonymous-ish anthropological gadfly, i'll have to recommend david graeber's <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragments_of_an_Anarchist_Anthropology" REL="nofollow">fragments of an archist anthropology</A>, available in <A HREF="http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/paradigm14.pdf" REL="nofollow">full in pdf</A>.<BR/><BR/>i'm doing it out of love, i swear!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-24835382338385057272009-03-10T19:42:00.000-07:002009-03-10T19:42:00.000-07:00in other words, my dear roger, to hell with good i...in other words, my dear roger, <A HREF="http://www.swaraj.org/illich_hell.htm" REL="nofollow">to hell with good intentions</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-76602245838698905312009-03-08T19:55:00.000-07:002009-03-08T19:55:00.000-07:00Amie, I have my prejudices, and one of them is the...Amie, I have my prejudices, and one of them is the gestures and cliches that are instilled into the Anglo professoriate at the Oxbridge schools. And their epigones - it sets me on edge. It is a tone, a superiority, and a ... philistinism that just kills me, which, I guess, is why I'm a francophile!<BR/><BR/>It is the idea that the limits of my world are just good common sense - as though the human consciousness has been surveyed and now we can get rid of the deadwood. <BR/><BR/>Which is why I like British outliers so much.<BR/>On the other hand, I'm reading a completely sweet book by an English birdwatcher, and the love of language and nature and detail makes me happy. So I'm inconsistent in my prejudices.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-23081272154415332312009-03-08T18:49:00.000-07:002009-03-08T18:49:00.000-07:00I just read parts of the CT post and thread. Narci...I just read parts of the CT post and thread. Narcissism? It is striking how the mirror is set up, or rather the set-up is the mirror. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all..."<BR/>Humpty Dumpty falling of the wall and not wanting to acknowledge cracks, would have to have recourse to that!<BR/>And of course the mirror speaks in English, civilized and civilizing English. Not that weird whatever it is of Finnegans Wake.<BR/>Somehow the CT post reminded me of a Czech guy who wrote in German of messengers, petitions, the Great Wall of China. Whose name means crow. Who cawed in the dark, a crow prophet.<BR/><BR/>AmieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com