Ang tensyon ng fiction at fact sa paghulma ng kaalamang antropolohikal, ang faction ni Geertz (1926-2006), ay litaw rin sa buong buhay ni Geertz, tumatabas mula paninindigang siyentistiko tungong maagang postmodernismo hanggang maamong postmodernismo. Huwag kaligtaan ang mga artikulong ito ni John Horgan kay Geertz: In Memoriam: Factionist Clifford Geertz, at Geertz and the Axis [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Faction: isang uri siguro ng fiction, kung di lang sa isang titik: kung may kaugnayan man sa agham, baka bilang kakaibang science fiction! Antropolohiya bilang bagong genre ng SF, nakakatuwang isipin. Sabagay meron din namang hard SF (mula kay Hal Clement hanggang kay Robert J Sawyer at ng kanyang Calculating God). Ngayong nasa SF narin [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kulang ang simpleng isip, kung meron mang ganito, upang humabi ng mga kathang-isip, mamilosopiya, mangarap, maglayag sa imahinasyon: upang unawain ang daigdig at usisain ang galaw ng tao at laro ng buhay. Kailangan ng isip ng konkretong bagay na tutungtungan: mata, salamin, pakpak, at ilang kasangkapan upang makalikot ang bagay na inuusisa. Lahat ito ay [...]
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Despairing of the reality of things and totally certain of their nullity, they, without any further ado, simply help themselves to them and devour them. [Hegel]
We have come to see tomorrow
We have given up today
Down among the dancing quanta
Up above in Transverse City
Here's the witness and the victim
Here's the relatives' remains
Here's the well-known double helix
Here's the poisoned waves of grain
Here's the song of shear and torsion
Here's the bloodbath magazine
Here's the harvest of contusions
Here's the narcoleptic dream
[Warren Zevon]
