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• 21:19, 7 June 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Blog: The Originary Hypothesis In Itself (Created page with "[https://dennisbouvard.substack.com/p/the-originary-hypothesis-in-itself Source: https://dennisbouvard.substack.com/p/the-originary-hypothesis-in-itself] I’m going to take a break from my regular programming (designing a totalizing version of originary thinking that can indelibly embed itself in the culture; more specifically, continuing the discussion of data as currency) to step back and take a look at the thing itself. I’m very grateful...")
• 21:08, 7 June 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Adam Katz Blog Post: The Originary Hypothesis In Itself (Created page with "[https://dennisbouvard.substack.com/p/the-originary-hypothesis-in-itself Source: https://dennisbouvard.substack.com/p/the-originary-hypothesis-in-itself] I’m going to take a break from my regular programming (designing a totalizing version of originary thinking that can indelibly embed itself in the culture; more specifically, continuing the discussion of data as currency) to step back and take a look at the thing itself. I’m very grateful for the readers, some of...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:35, 24 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page File:GA-Cover-1.jpg
• 23:35, 24 April 2023 Admin talk contribs uploaded File:GA-Cover-1.jpg
• 20:06, 22 April 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Originary Hypothesis (Created page with "The Originary Hypothesis is the name of the hypothesis that something like the Originary Event / Originary Scene must have taken place.") Tag: Visual edit
• 16:05, 19 April 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page History of Generative Anthropology (Created page with "Test") Tag: Visual edit
• 15:53, 17 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page FAQ (Created page with "====== '''What is GA's relationship to philosophy?''' ====== GA understands metaphysics as predicated on the belief that the declarative is the primary linguistic form. Generative anthropologists, on the other hand, understand the declarative as the final development of language form, coming only after the ostensive, imperative, and interrogative. Some non-metaphysical philosophy, however, can interface with GA, although the relationship is not guaranteed to be symbiotic...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:58, 17 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Why GA? (Created page with "The biggest question many have about generative anthropology is "why should I care?" Here are some reasons why you should be interested in GA: ====== '''Theories of language origin are important, even if "unfalsifiable."''' ====== Speculations on the origin of language may come off as "too armchair" for the empirically-minded; after all, GA is unfalsifiable. However, the concept of empirical falsifiability itself is based on a similar speculative account on the nature o...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:18, 13 April 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Anthropomorphics (Created page with "Anthropomorphics is an originary grammar of the center. It was first developed in a [https://www.amazon.com/Anthropomorphics-Originary-Grammar-Dennis-Bouvard/dp/0648690571 book] with the same title by Dennis Bouvard. Anthropomorphics starts with Generative Anthropology's derivation of successive speech forms developed by Eric Gans in the [https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Language-New-Eric-Gans-ebook/dp/B07N8H9GG6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RW61AQPR9S2U&keywords=origin+of+language&qid...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:14, 9 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Talk:Center (Created page with "Hello")
• 17:54, 9 April 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Power (Created page with "Power is the ability to structure attention on a scene to preserve the center. == Origin == Power does not originate in the exercise of force, but in the continuation of deferral by someone willing to take more risks and accept more suffering in order to accomplish some task. Most importantly, that person has to be able to stand both inside and outside the scene to modulate the desires and resentments of others who need to be brought into the scene. In doing so, the...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:56, 6 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Originary Terror (Created page with "'''Originary terror''' is the fear of the originary violence, which compels the aborted gesture of appropriation. == Origin == == Characteristics == == References ==") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:24, 6 April 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Originary Violence (Created page with "'''Originary violence''' refers to the violent conflict that could have ensued on the originary scene, had it not been deferred via the originary sign.") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:24, 2 April 2023 Admin talk contribs changed group membership for Uber from (none) to administrator, interface administrator, bureaucrat and suppressor
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• 16:15, 27 March 2023 Admin talk contribs changed group membership for Chonsa from (none) to administrator, interface administrator, bureaucrat and suppressor
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• 13:38, 27 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs moved page Originary Event to Originary Scene over redirect
• 13:37, 27 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs deleted redirect Originary Scene by overwriting (Deleted to make way for move from "Originary Event")
• 18:14, 26 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs moved page Originary Scene to Originary Event
• 18:06, 26 March 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Scapegoating (Redirected page to Mimetic Theory) Tag: New redirect
• 17:22, 24 March 2023 Admin talk contribs moved page Gesture of Aborted Appropriation to Aborted Gesture of Appropriation
• 23:17, 23 March 2023 Admin talk contribs deleted page GA Wiki:GA Basics (content was: "{{Special:AllPages/GA Basics}}", and the only contributor was "Admin" (talk))
• 23:16, 23 March 2023 Admin talk contribs created page GA Wiki:GA Basics (Created page with "{{Special:AllPages/Category:GA Basics}}")
• 23:12, 23 March 2023 Admin talk contribs deleted page List of GA Terms (content was: "#REDIRECT GA Wiki:List of GA Terms", and the only contributor was "Admin" (talk))
• 23:11, 23 March 2023 Admin talk contribs moved page List of GA Terms to GA Wiki:List of GA Terms
• 23:05, 23 March 2023 Admin talk contribs deleted page Main Page (content was: "<strong>MediaWiki has been installed.</strong> Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software. == Getting started == * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wi...", and the only contributor was "MediaWiki default" (talk))
• 02:52, 15 March 2023 Admin talk contribs renamed user Axiomatix (48 edits) to Idiomatic
• 18:44, 14 March 2023 Admin talk contribs moved page Joint-Shared Attention to Joint Shared Attention
• 06:20, 14 March 2023 Admin talk contribs created page Interrogative (Created page with " == Examples == == Development == In an imperative language, there would be some '''inappropriate imperatives''' - imperatives which could not be fulfilled, raising the specter of a breakdown in linguistic presence. In many cases, the one issuing the imperative would "let it go," either due to the unimportance of the request or the inability to enforce the command. However, a more complex situation could emerge - one where the imperative is not complied with, but it's n...") Tag: Visual edit
• 06:05, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs deleted page Grammatical Stack (content was: "The Imperative to "line up" the speech forms: ostensive>imperative>interrogative>declarative>imperative>ostensive", and the only contributor was "Axiomatix" (talk))
• 05:18, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Scene (Created page with "''We, not I; on a scene, not in a mind.'' Every scene, every event, is modeled on, and an iteration of, the Originary Scene/Event. Once the Originary Scene "works" and is iterated on such that Linguistic Presence is able to extend over nonritual communication within the community, the size of the group involved in the scene can become arbitrarily large (although always in a Centered Ordinality). If we ask, how do we determine the boundaries of a scene and the end of...") Tag: Visual edit
• 05:13, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Grammatical Stack (Created page with "The Imperative to "line up" the speech forms: ostensive>imperative>interrogative>declarative>imperative>ostensive") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:58, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Super-Sovereignty (Created page with "“Super-sovereignty” is Adam Katz's translation of “imperium in imperio.” “Super-sovereignty,” with its echoing of “superhero,” provides an appropriately derisive connotation. The imperium in imperio is, in the first instance, the compromising of sovereign authority with the attribution of sovereignty to another authority within the same system. So, for example, who is sovereign in the US—the president? The Supreme Court? Congress? The Constitution? On...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:53, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Semantic Primes (Created page with "Semantic Primes is Anna Wierzbicka’s term for those words, identified by her and her fellow inquirers through decades of research, that have exact equivalents in every language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_primes") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:52, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Ostensive Imperative World (Created page with "The ostensive and imperative signs constitute a kind of loop: once we are looking at the same thing we can request, and if the request is complied with we can confirm that by repeating the name of the thing. Eric Gans, in The Origin of Language, uses the relation between surgeon and nurse to illustrate an ostensive-imperative dialectic: the surgeon requests the “scalpel,” and the nurse passes it to him, repeating, “scalpel.” We can think of this as a self-contain...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:48, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Operator of Negation (Created page with "Operator of Negation is the concept Eric Gans uses in The Origin of Language to account for the kind of “negative ostensive” that would be the first proto-declarative sentence. “Operator of negation” is a term within logic and it is important in our context because Gans uses it to refer to the kind of open-ended prohibition (like “don’t smoke”) that occupies a kind of middle ground between the imperative (which must be obeyed or defied within the temporal f...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:47, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Onomastic Pedagogy (Created page with "This refers to a pedagogy of naming, which is the most fundamental form of teaching and learning: pointing to something and saying, “this is_______.” When we study something and try to instruct each other, what concerns us is how things should be named. We name things so that we all know we are talking about and looking at and listening to the same thing. This is ultimately the most important responsibility of the central authority—to govern is to name, and to name...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:46, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Omnicentrism (Created page with "Omnicentrism is a concept Gans introduces near the end of Originary Thinking. It’s a kind of riposte to the then popular postmodern concept of “decentering”—for Gans, even decentering doesn’t go far enough; every sign user must become a center in himself. Katz accepts the descriptive accuracy of the concept—this does follow from desacralization and the general possibility that a human can occupy the center—while insists that there is always a hierarchy of c...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:45, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Mimism (Created page with "“Mimism” is the foundational concept of Marcel Jousse’s anthropology. Jousse is one of the great discoverers of the world of oral culture in the 20th century and in a way the most radical and consistent—and, the most clearly convergent with the mimetic theory of Girard and Gans. For Jousse, we are mimers, or imitators, all the way down (our every gesture or reaction must be learned, and how else other than by imitating?) and all the way up (our “highest” inte...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:44, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Metalanguage of Literacy (Created page with "Metalanguage of Literacy is a concept from David Olson’s The Mind on Paper, which is in a sense a “sequel” to his much more wide-ranging The World on Paper. According to Olson, writing has to represent not simply speech (what was actually said) but an entire speech situation. That is, everything in a speech situation that contributes to meaning—tone, context, gesture, the social relations between the interlocutors, and so on—has to be represented by words in th...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:43, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Logocentrism (Created page with "“Logocentrism” is one of Jacques Derrida’s signature concepts. For Derrida, it refers to the reduction within Western thought of writing to a direct representation of speech, which also reduced speech to the speakers “self-presence” or intentionality. For Derrida, logocentrism suppressed what is central to writing—that it involves difference and distance. To put it simply, the text can’t mean the same thing to the writer and all its readers (and the writer...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:41, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Internal Scene of Representation (Created page with "The Internal Scene of Representation is a concept of Eric Gans’s that Adam Katz rejects. Gans assumes that there must be some subjective space where events are processed and decisions made. So, it would make sense to see the external scene upon which the sign is generated as replicated in an internal scene—this, in turn would support the whole vocabulary of interiority (consciousness, soul, psychology, conscience, will, and so on) that I see as products of disciplina...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:40, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Imperative Interrogativity (Created page with "Imperative exchange is a sacrificial order: I give up something, some part of myself, and in return, the gods, God or some hypostasized concept of “society” or ‘reality” will give me something. Ultimately, this kind of order must reach its limits. Declaratives will only be able to go so far in “rationalizing” at least some of the more egregious discrepancies between what the individual gives and what the individual receives. Moreover, there is an escalatory l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:37, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Imperative Gap (Created page with "The Imperative Gap is the concept that there is a difference between the imperative that is issued and the one that is obeyed. No imperative can completely specify the terms of its implementation. Some discretion is necessarily left to the obedient. This is important in Originary Grammar because this concept gives us a new way of thinking about what makes a command “legitimate.” Instead of asking whether a command corresponds to some external concept of “justice”...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:35, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Imperative Exchange (Created page with "Imperative Exchange is a concept Katz derived from Gans’s analysis of early human culture, in its imperative and preliminary declarative stage, in The End of Culture. The first relation of the human group to the sacred center is ostensive, with the emergence of rituals iterating the originary event. The emergence of the imperative generates a new stage in human culture: beyond just “pointing” to the center, members of the group can issue imperatives to the center....") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:33, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Gesture of Aborted Appropriation (Created page with "This is one of the founding concepts of Generative Anthropology. According to Eric Gans’s concept of the originary event, the gesture of aborted appropriation is the first sign, which is to say, the first use of language. With all of the members of a group moving and reaching towards some central object, the pre-human pecking order breaks down and, with appetite intensified by mimetic desire, a violent conflict threatening the survival of the group is imminent. One mem...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:32, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Fractal Hierachy (Created page with "Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of “fractals” is pretty familiar by now. The simplified sense in which GA utilizes this is that the micro level reiterates (or is reiterated by) the macro level. If you zero in on a very small part of a coastline, which looks smooth from a distance, you will see patterns (articulations of angles and shapes) very similar to what is seen on the coastline as a whole. The observation that micro-relations that seem smooth and undifferentiate...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:27, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Disciplinary Space (Created page with "A discipline is an academic or professional space, institutionalized and subject to some rules of entry and standards of performance, that is focused on some subject matter or area. At the origin of every discipline there must be the creation of a new attentional space. A new “object” comes into view, as one “paradigm” is replaced by another. The development of new attentional spaces into disciplines is inevitable—the attentional space, strictly speaking, wa...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:22, 14 March 2023 Idiomatic talk contribs created page Centered Ordinality (Created page with "“Eric Gans had seen the originary event as one in which all members of the group issued the first sign (the aborted gesture of appropriation) simultaneously. It seemed to me that this couldn’t be the case, and that if the crisis leading up to the emission of the sign was mimetically driven, the same must be the case, in reverse, so to speak, for the issuing of the sign. Someone, then, must have put forth the gesture (a kind of hesitation) first, with others subsequen...") Tag: Visual edit