The ostensive is the fundamental component of all speech forms (even the declarative is an “ostensive at a distance”), meaning that all language use is naming the center, or as Gans has put it, “every word is the name-of-God.” Naming is always pointing back to an origin; whenever you use a name, you are commemorating whatever scene in which that name was first conferred, asserting that the center being named is the “same” as it was on the commemorated scene.
If you'd want help with the wiki here's a good resource to refer to, as well. This was one of the projects our 'NRx 3.0' scene did accomplish reasonably well. The only problem with it was not being updated all that much.
I have some gripes with some of the Promethean Idealist portion, and studied enough to where I think it should be expanded in different, more comprehensive directions--but that's just me. You can check the GA portion, there should be citations there as well. You can either put suggestions in there or just continue to build your own 🤷♂️.
It may be better to have a separate specifically GA wiki, for people who think the absolutist and arya-mystic sections are fluff and unnecessary.
It's not close to a "finished" state, but a lot of stuff was ported from the GA section of that glossary as a start. We're expanding on stuff and really trying to get things precise, the old glossary seemed like it suffered from being "cramped" as every term had to be fit on a single page. The wiki software we're using (mediawiki) also provides a huge variety of extensions, some that we use currently and some which we may use in the future. As far as the other sections, we're only focused on GA, so I haven't really looked at any of it in a while.
That glossary has been really good as far as helping find related GAblog and substack posts for certain terms, though. Even anthropoetics still has a lot of directly applicable information, mainly when it concerns terms where there isn't much room for Gans to get all fancy with his word choices.
On that initial page I would add that generative anthropology suggests that what makes humans unique is our capacity for language. Compared to other disciplines, which might relate tool use or bipedalism, first, GA isolates language as the key difference. There is a discussion in the End of Culture I can send you in a moment, that discusses more what language is to GA.
If you'd want help with the wiki here's a good resource to refer to, as well. This was one of the projects our 'NRx 3.0' scene did accomplish reasonably well. The only problem with it was not being updated all that much.
https://theglossary.home.blog/2020/06/27/postliberal-diction-study/
I have some gripes with some of the Promethean Idealist portion, and studied enough to where I think it should be expanded in different, more comprehensive directions--but that's just me. You can check the GA portion, there should be citations there as well. You can either put suggestions in there or just continue to build your own 🤷♂️.
It may be better to have a separate specifically GA wiki, for people who think the absolutist and arya-mystic sections are fluff and unnecessary.
These are the same guys who did the formatting and organization of the wiki, too: https://51ststate.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=profile_page
This is the site we're working: https://learn.generativeanthropology.com/wiki/Generative_Anthropology
It's not close to a "finished" state, but a lot of stuff was ported from the GA section of that glossary as a start. We're expanding on stuff and really trying to get things precise, the old glossary seemed like it suffered from being "cramped" as every term had to be fit on a single page. The wiki software we're using (mediawiki) also provides a huge variety of extensions, some that we use currently and some which we may use in the future. As far as the other sections, we're only focused on GA, so I haven't really looked at any of it in a while.
That glossary has been really good as far as helping find related GAblog and substack posts for certain terms, though. Even anthropoetics still has a lot of directly applicable information, mainly when it concerns terms where there isn't much room for Gans to get all fancy with his word choices.
On that initial page I would add that generative anthropology suggests that what makes humans unique is our capacity for language. Compared to other disciplines, which might relate tool use or bipedalism, first, GA isolates language as the key difference. There is a discussion in the End of Culture I can send you in a moment, that discusses more what language is to GA.
Can you send it to me as a DM on twitter? Email would also work.
Sure. I'll look over and can help give some initial suggestions for structuring it. Seems like the only structure there so far is by field.