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 [...]
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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]
