Academic papers, journal articles, introductory lectures, and longer works — including NER, JCRT publications and the five Center Study lectures
Book Review: My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence Mark Amerika. Stanford University Press, 2022. 264 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol. 10 (2022) --- I thought...
Book Review: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning Audrey Watters. MIT Press, 2021. 323 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol. 9 (2021) DOI:...
Book Review: Natures of Data: A Discussion Between Biology, History, and Philosophy of Science and Art Philipp Fischer, Gabrielle Grammelsberger, Christoph Hoffman, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, and Hannes...
Book Review: Memory, Memorization and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists Marcel Jousse. Cascade Books, 2018. 434 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double...
A Praxis of Entry: First-Year Writing as the Critical Thinking Course Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol. 6 (2018) DOI: 10.37514/DBH-J.2018.6.1.05 [The Provocateur] --- It is...
Book Review: The Essence of Jargon: Argot and the Dangerous Classes Alice Becker-Ho. New York: Autonomedia, 2015. 178 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol. 4 (2016) DOI:...
Book Review: Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint Louis Bury. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2015. 290 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol....
Book Review: A Natural History of Human Thinking Michael Tomasello. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 178 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double Helix, Vol. 2 (2014) DOI:...
Book Review: After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur Frank Farmer. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2013. 180 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Double...
The Redemption of Hostages Anthropoetics XVIII, no. 1 (Fall 2012) Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 --- What we today call "terrorism" is certainly one of the...
Originary Mistakenness, Defilement and Modernity Anthropoetics XVI, no. 1 (Fall 2010): GA Summer Conference Issue Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 --- The...
From Habit to Maxim: Eccentric Models of Reality and Presence in the Writing of Gertrude Stein Anthropoetics XV, no. 2 (Spring 2010) Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT...
By Adam Katz Eric Gans likes to speak of his "originary hypothesis" regarding the origin of language as a "new way of thinking." In my view, a new way of thinking means thinking in a new idiom, with...
By Adam Katz The indicative sentence could be said by anyone; imperative and interrogative sentences are defined by the speaker and listener. To use Peircean terms, imperatives and interrogatives...
By Adam Katz Everything stays the same but composition, says Gertrude Stein. So, what is "everything," and what is "composition"? (For that matter, what is the "same"?) Everything is all that falls...
Marginalist Politics, Political Grammar Anthropoetics XIV, no. 1 (Summer 2008) Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 --- Introduction Eric Gans' Chronicle of Love...
by Adam Katz (May 2007) Part of the appeal of "realist" foreign policy prescriptions must lie in their promise to restore a status quo ante that has been "disrupted" by some avoidable "mistake" on...
by Adam Katz (Jan. 2007) Our political map is defunct, making it urgent that a new political center be forged. Both Democrats and Republicans have revealed their irrelevance to the world created on...
DOI: 10.37514/DBH-J.2024.12.1.08 Double Helix, Vol 12 (2024) Book Review AI and Writing. Sidney I. Dobrin. Broadview Press, 2023. 144 pages. Adam Katz Quinnipiac University I like to think that...
An Introduction to Disciplinarity Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam. Katz@quinnipiac.edu In his 1968 “Introduction” to his study of The Civilizing Process,...
Attentionality and Originary Ethics: Upclining Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam. Katz@quinnipiac.edu However paradoxical it may seem, I venture to suggest...
Book Review: Nemesis: The Jouvenelian vs. the Liberal Model of Human Orders, by C.A. Bond Adam Katz 177 pages Ebook $9.95 Print: $15.95 The way people speak about their relation and attitude toward...
Event, Origin, Center Let’s start with “journalism.” You watch a cable or news show, or read (probably online) an article in a newspaper, and there’s a “story” there. Maybe a story buried under...
DOI: 10.37514/DBH-J.2024.12.1.02 Double Helix, Vol 12 (2024) Research Article From Novice to Apprentice: A Pedagogy of “Academic Discourse” Adam Katz Quinnipiac University Helen Bromhead (2009),...
Generative Anthropology as the One Big Discipline Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam. Katz@quinnipiac.edu If the originary hypothesis entails that all human...
Famously, the French Academy of the Sciences in 1866 banned all discussion of the origin of language. They must have determined that since nothing could be proven one way or the other on this...
I’ll begin with a few passages from Girard’s Nietzsche, Wagner and Dostoevsky “As for Nietzsche himself, what he says about his own competitive and aggressive urge must be carefully examined: its...
Here are some dictionary provided synonyms for “defer”: postpone, put off, adjourn, delay, hold off, hold over, shelve, suspend, delay, hold in abeyance, stay, prorogue, pigeonhole, mothball. None of...
One distinction between GA and traditional philosophical and theoretical thought is that GA replaces the concept of “intention” with the concept of “attention.” “Intention” gets you focused on the...
Derrida pointed out that “sign” is an inextricably dualist and therefore metaphysical concept, being both “intelligible” and “sensible” and therefore in need of deconstruction. The question then is...
Mimesis, the Center and Auto-Immunology: A Review of Daniel Ross’s Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Toward a Metacosmics. Open Humanities Press 2021. Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac...
Originary Technics A paradoxical effect of the spread of writing was to produce a conception of the self as constituted by an inviolable interiority: the subject who speaks (really, reads and...
Power and Paradox Adam Katz The liberal world order presents itself as a vast mapping of “rights.” No political or social question can be discussed without being framed in terms of...
Talk of the Center …the social sciences were born on the day when the 'origin of society' was consigned to a desk draw—to the file labelled 'fantasies.' — Regis Debray Where to begin? This is a...
The Anthropoetics of Power by Chris B May 2, 2017 by Bouvard The Originary Hypothesis We can think about the distinction between liberalism and absolutism in terms of the conflicting notions of...
The Esthetic, the Sacred, and Originary Modernity Adam Katz Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam. Katz@quinnipiac.edu In a fairly recent Chronicle of Love & Resentment...
The Linguistic Turn and Generative Literacy Adam Katz Abstract: This essay argues that only generative anthropology can complete the “linguistic turn” that has dominated much of th 20 century...
Anthropoetics XXVIII, no. 2 Spring 2023 There Is No Economy but Only the Debt to the Center: Money, Capital and the Tributary Adam Katz and Zack Baker Abstract | We hypothesize swapping the...
Why Generative Anthropology? – Guest columnist: Peter Goldman Eric Gans This is the text of Peter’s “Introduction to GA,” delivered on June 27, 2013, at the opening of the 7th Annual Generative...