Chronicles of Love and Resentment

Eric Gans

Chronicles 1-224

July 6, 1995 - December 30, 2000

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No. 224, December 30, 2000: Thoughts for a Dying Millennium No. 223, December 23, 2000: Art, High and Popular
No. 222, December 16, 2000: Justice and Resentment No. 221, December 2, 2000: Resentment, or the Sense of Injustice
No. 220, November 25, 2000: Originary Thoughts on Sexuality No. 219, November 18, 2000: The Victim's Hard Death and Democracy's Moral Paradox
No. 218, November 11, 2000: Post-Victimary Thinking in the Holy Land No. 217, November 4, 2000: November Choices
No. 216, October 28, 2000: Faith and Factoids No. 215, October 21, 2000: Back to the Origin of Language
No. 214, October 7, 2000: NOP No. 213, September 9, 2000: Happy Birthday: Blues Riffs
No. 212, August 19, 2000: Still More on Celebrity No. 211, July 15, 2000: Tycoon, Yuppie, and Bobo: Three Stages in the Esthetic of Consumption
No. 210, June 17, 2000: Is GA Too Perfect? No. 209, June 3, 2000: The Post-Millennial Age
No. 208, May 20, 2000: Our Post-Postmodern Bobos No. 207, May 13, 2000: The Persistence of Anti-Semitism
No. 206, April 29, 2000: Locke's Little Bang No. 205, April 22, 2000: Originary and Evolutionary Esthetics
No. 204, April 8, 2000: The Novelistic Attitude No. 203, April 1, 2000: Originary Thinking, Cognitive Science, and Religion
No. 202, March 25, 2000: GA and Esthetics: Ideas for a Research Program No. 201, March 11, 2000: GA and Not-so-Social Science
No. 200, March 4, 2000: Minimal Faith: The Human as Event No. 199, February 19, 2000: Clouzot's Cruel Crow
No. 198, February 12, 2000: Emile Durkheim, Hedgehog (Language Origin in History X) No. 197, February 5, 2000: Whither GA?
No. 196, January 29, 2000: Levels of Intentionality No. 195, January 22, 2000: Language Origin in History IX: Durkheim and Sacred Representation (I)
No. 194, January 15, 2000: Body and Soul No. 193, January 8, 2000: Culture vs. Exchange
No. 192, December 18, 1999: Language Origin in History VIII: Max Müller's Originary Sunrise No. 191, December 11, 1999: Language Origin in History VII: Herder's Bleating Sheep
No. 190, December 4, 1999: Does God Exist? No. 189, November 27, 1999: Language Origin in History VI: Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages 
No. 188, November 20, 1999: Adorers of Literature Scared of Criticism No. 187, November 6, 1999: Oulipo
No. 186, October 30, 1999: Three Kinds of Authority No. 185, October 16, 1999: Language Origin in History V: Rousseau's Prelinguistic Pity
No. 184, October 9, 1999: Sacrificing Culture No. 183, September 25, 1999: Language Origin in History IV: Rousseau: Language and Unanimity
No. 182, September 18, 1999: Science and Faith in Kansas No. 181, September 11, 1999: GA Futurism
No. 180, September 4, 1999: Postmodern GA No. 179, August 21, 1999: Language Origin in History III: Condillac's Originary Scene (Part 2)
No. 178, August 14, 1999: Language Origin in History II: Condillac's Originary Scene (Part 1) No. 177, August 7, 1999: Herostratus Revisited
No. 176, July 31, 1999: History of Language Origin I: Hobbes and Rousseau No. 175, July 24, 1999: Was There an Origin of Language?
No. 174, July 17, 1999: Ending History No. 173, July 10, 1999: Toujours le Meme
No. 172, June 26, 1999: Kosovo: War in the Postwar Era No. 171, June 19, 1999: The Origin of Religion: Preliminary Reflections
No. 170, June 12, 1999: COV&R Story No. 169, May 29, 1999: The Little Bang Theory
No. 168, May 22, 1999: The Origin of Language III: Toward Synthesis

No. 167, May 1, 1999: The Origin of Language II: Scientific Perspectives

No. 166, April 17, 1999: Back to the Origin of Language No. 165, April 10, 1999: The Marx-Freud Alliance
No. 164, April 3, 1999: Is Anthropology Empirical? No. 163, March 20, 1999: Deconstructing the Subject
No. 162, March 13, 1999: Failure of Mimetic Theory? No. 161, February 27, 1999: Thinking Religion
No. 160, February 6, 1999: Michael Jordan's Productive Resentment No. 159, January 30, 1999: Socratic GA
No. 158, January 9, 1999: Impeachment No. 157, December 19, 1998: The Voice of Authority
No. 156, December 5, 1998: Proust's Homosexual Modernity No. 155, November 21, 1998: Antisemitism and Market Phobia
No. 154, November 14, 1998: In the Beginning Was the Word No. 153, November 7, 1998: Beyond the Nation-State
No. 152, October 23, 1998: Titanic and the Decline of Narrative No. 151, October 17, 1998: Clinton and the Sacrificial Paradigm
No. 150, October 3, 1998: Clinton in Paris No. 149, September 5, 1998: Visiting the Getty
No. 148, August 15, 1998: Spielberg's Tales of Survival No. 147, August 8, 1998: Private Ryan: The Unknown Survivor
No. 146, August 1, 1998: The Art of Resentment No. 145, July 25, 1998: Beyond "Generative Anthropology" 2. Resistance to (Mimetic) Theory
No. 144, July 18, 1998: Beyond "Generative Anthropology" 1. Deferring Resentment No. 143, July 11, 1998: Personal Origins of GA: 4. Class and Universality
No. 142, July 4, 1998: A Thought for Independence Day No. 141, June 20, 1998: On Looking Into Branagh's Hamlet
No. 140, June 13, 1998: On Not Receiving a Promotion No. 139, June 6, 1998: Programming and Thinking
No. 138, May 30, 1998: The Rhetoric of God No. 137, May 23, 1998: Appeals to Authority
No. 136, May 16, 1998: The Moral Contradiction of Liberalism No. 135, May 2, 1998: The End of Literature and the Beginning of Literary History
No. 134, April 25, 1998: Consumption as Production No. 133, April 18, 1998: Mind and Brain
No. 132, April 11, 1998: The Sign, the Thing, and Titanic
Guest columnist: Matthew Schneider
No. 131, April 4, 1998: The Full Monty
No. 130, March 28, 1998: Our Oral Culture No. 129, March 7, 1998: What is an Author?
No. 128, February 28, 1998: The Erotic No. 127, February 21, 1998: The Body Sacrificial, Revisited
No. 126, February 14, 1998: Origin and Structure No. 125, February 7, 1998: Presidential Kneepads and Phallic Religion
No. 124, January 31, 1998: The Market Model: Three Points No. 123, January 24, 1998: On Political Economy
No. 122, January 17, 1998: Personal Origins of GA: 3. The Pursuit of Amateurism No. 121, January 10, 1998: The End of Seinfeld
No. 120, December 13, 1997: Victimage and Virtual Inclusion No. 119, December 6, 1997: God is Love
No. 118, November 22, 1997: Marcus Borg's Spiritual God No. 117, November 15, 1997: The Problem of the Subject
No. 116, November 8, 1997: External and Internal Mediation No. 115, November 1, 1997: Phallogocentrism
No. 114, October 25, 1997: More On Celebrity No. 113, October 18, 1997: Personal Origins of GA: 2. Bronx Romanticism and Theoretical Minimalism
No. 112, October 11, 1997: What is Postmodernism?

No. 111, October 4, 1997: Personal Origins of GA: 1. Bronx Romanticism

No. 110, September 27, 1997: Resistance to GA No. 109, September 20, 1997: Carnal Knowledge
No. 108, September 6, 1997: On Celebrity

No. 107, August 30, 1997: Originary Democracy

No. 106, August 23, 1997: Cultural Elevation (Cultural Studies series no. 3) No. 105, August 16, 1997: Laughing at Anthropology
No. 104, August 9, 1997: Love and Originary Violence No. 103, August 2, 1997: Models of Identity
No. 102, July 26, 1997: The Critique of Love No. 101, July 19, 1997: Comparative Literature and Global Culture (Cultural Studies series no. 2)
No. 100, July 12, 1997: Love, Resentment, and Generative Anthropology No. 99, July 5, 1997: Ending the Era of Suspicion

No. 98, June 28, 1997: Cultural Studies & GA (Cultural Studies series no. 1)

No. 97, June 21, 1997: Resentment, Guilt, Compassion, and Injustice

No. 96, June 7, 1997: Poetry After the End of Culture

No. 95, May 31, 1997: Futurism and Sexuality

No. 94, May 24, 1997: Love and Reciprocity

No. 93, May 17, 1997: Once More, the End of Culture

No. 92, May 10, 1997: A Rembrandt in an Elevator

No. 91, May 3, 1997: States of Identity

No. 90, April 26, 1997: Antisemitism, White and Black

No. 89, April 19, 1997: Heaven's Gate, Post Mortem

No. 88, April 12, 1997: Free Will and Cosmological Idiocy

No. 87, April 5, 1997: Herostratus Forever

No. 86, March 29, 1997: Technological Realism

No. 85, March 22, 1997: Cool GA
Guest columnist: Andrew McKenna

No. 84, March 15, 1997: Beyond Denial

No. 83, March 8, 1997: Film Open and Closed

No. 82, March 1, 1997: George Soros and the Open Society

No. 81, February 22, 1997: Questions of Interpretation

No. 80, February 15, 1997: Triangular Utopias

No. 79, February 8, 1997: Why the Humanities Need GA

No. 78, February 1, 1997: Optimists and Pessimists

No. 77, January 25, 1997: Resentment, Individual and Collective

No. 76, January 18, 1997: A GA Conversation (III)
Richard van Oort and Eric Gans

No. 75, January 11, 1997: Evolution and the Human

No. 74, January 4, 1997: Gangsters and Jews

No. 73, December 28, 1996: Public and Private

No. 72, December 21, 1996: A GA Conversation (II)
Richard van Oort and Eric Gans
No. 71, December 14, 1996: Talking About God
No. 70, December 7, 1996: Three Models of Culture No. 69, November 30, 1996: A GA Conversation (I)
Richard van Oort and Eric Gans
No. 68, November 23, 1996: The Minimal Ethic No. 67, November 16, 1996: God and Woody Allen
No. 66, November 9, 1996: Generative Spirituality No. 65, November 2, 1996: Election Special:
Two Points About the Presidential Campaign
No. 64, October 26, 1996: Avoiding Armageddon No. 63, October 19, 1996: Age, Love, and Culture
No. 62, October 12, 1996: Assisted Suicide: The Body as Internal Other  No. 61, October 5, 1996: Radical Thinking and Neopolitics
No. 60, September 28, 1996: Civil Society No. 59, September 14, 1996: Beyond Suspicion 

No. 58, September 7, 1996: Conversation and Education

No. 57, August 31, 1996: Garrison Keillor and Cultural Irony

No. 56, August 24, 1996: Love and Transcendence No. 55, August 17, 1996: Terror in the Global Village
No. 54, August 10, 1996: Sacrificial Stories No. 53, August 3, 1996: The Feminization of Sport Narrative
No. 52, July 27, 1996: Generative Paleoanthropology No. 51, July 20, 1996: Differences of Scale
No. 50, July 13, 1996: Really the End of Culture? No. 49, July 6, 1996: Happy Anniversary!
No. 48, June 29, 1996: Seinfeld and Sacrality No. 47, June 15, 1996: The Humanities Profession
No. 46, June 8, 1996: On Programming and Ponds No. 45, June 1, 1996: Science and Culture, or How Real is Real? Reflections on the "Sokal Debate"
Guest columnist: Richard van Oort
No. 44, May 25, 1996: Is GA Impossible? No. 43, May 18, 1996: Female Genital Mutilation: Cultural Relativism and Moral Absolutism
No. 42, May 11, 1996: Tarantino Transcendence No. 41, May 4, 1996: Two Types of Denial
No. 40, April 27, 1996: Victimary Culture No. 39, April 20, 1996: Mimetic Simplicity
No. 38, April 13, 1996: The Ethical Mission of GA No. 37, April 6, 1996: Minimal Thinking
No. 36, March 30, 1996: Is GA Falsifiable? No. 35, March 23, 1996: The End of History
No. 34, March 16, 1996: The Free Market No. 33, March 9, 1996: Male Generation
No. 32, March 2, 1996: The Use of Literature No. 31, February 24, 1996: Love and Sexual Difference
No. 30, February 17, 1996: Self-Righteousness No. 29, February 10, 1996: The Abortion Debate
No. 28, February 3, 1996: Public Resentment, Private Love No. 27, January 27, 1996: No More Masterpieces?
No. 26, January 20, 1996: The Honnête Homme No. 25, January 13, 1996: Culture Against the Market
No. 24, January 6, 1996: Originary Thinking in a Nutshell No. 23, December 30, 1995: Brave New World?
No. 22, December 23, 1995: Simplicity or Complexity? No. 21, December 16, 1995: Liberal or Conservative?
No. 20, December 9, 1995: Toujours l'amour No. 19, December 2, 1995: Amo quia absurdum
No. 18, November 25, 1995: God told me to... No. 17, November 11, 1995: Perfide Manon
No. 16, November 4, 1995: Posterity Will Absolve Me No. 15, October 28, 1995: Tel qu'en lui-même...
No. 14, October 21, 1995: Mimeticism and Feminism
Guest columnist: Richard van Oort
No. 13, October 14, 1995: Abelard and Heloise
No. 12, October 7, 1995: Sour Grapes No. 11, September 30, 1995: The Spirit of the Humanities
No. 10, September 16, 1995: Vive le WWW! No. 9, September 9, 1995: Paradoxes of Love and Resentment
No. 8, September 2, 1995: Above Politics? No. 7, August 26, 1995: The Body Sacrificial
No. 6, August 19, 1995: Resentment and Love No. 5, August 12, 1995: The Simpson Trial
No. 4, August 5, 1995: "I love you" No. 3, July 29, 1995: in memoriam Nicholas Collaros
No. 2, July 15, 1995: No. 1, July 6, 1995:


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