UTOPISTICS – Page 2 – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

New•World•Knowledge: A Caribbean Legacy and a Future Anthropology

Many thanks again to inspiration from fellow bloggers at Savage Minds with their article by Dylan Kerrigan who teaches the Anthropology of the Caribbean course at the St. Augustine, Trinidad, campus of the University of the West Indies (I had met his predecessor back in 2002, and thanks to a failing memory I am disappointed […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

09-11-1984, The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the “Real Threats”

Orange has become America’s new national colour. Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Theory in Action: Call for Papers

Theory in Action! The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute http://www.transformativestudies.org ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** THEORY & SOCIAL JUSTICE While there have been many theoretical analyses of such aspects of social justice as stratification and inequality, and civil rights, there is a need for more research that connects activism with theory. We believe that theory without action […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Impermanence, II

Coincidentally, while reviewing a chapter in Vassos Argryou’s compelling book, Anthropology and the Will to Meaning (2002)–I will have much more to say in coming weeks and months about this unique text, the first anthropological work I have read in many years that has so excited me–I came across this rather innocuous paragraph on an […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Impermanence & Re-animalization

Such a brief foray into such large topics is hardly worth undertaking, but I must break the ice somehow. With reference to the “utopistics” of the Open Anthropology Project, I have been haunted for several years by what are actually common philosophical observations, common enough that you can pick them up in any pop cultural […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Guanaguanare: Universal Aboriginality

As some readers already know, I am a fan of a Trinidadian blog that is titled, “Guanaguanare-The Laughing Gull.” I recently received an email from that blog, with the following post: ….I have chosen to focus on one aspect of Trinidadian society and culture – the aboriginal presence. I will take the opportunity to think […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Introducing the beginnings of the Open Anthropology Project

OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY arises from a dissastisfaction with the state of knowledge in contemporary and classical anthropology, and is meant to significantly restructure and move anthropology beyond its current confines, beyond the constraints of professionalization and institutionalization, transcending the very “disciplinariness” of a discipline that has often foundered on its own shoals since its inception as […]