When the Human Terrain System came up recently, Grasspunk dug up an old Adam Curtis piece on the subject:
The project was created by an American anthropologist with a fantastic name.
Montgomery McFate.
She was born in 1966. Her parents were counterculture radicals in the heart of the experimental art scene in San Francisco so she is very much “second-generation cool”. She became a punk in the Bay Area in the early 80s.
Back then she was called Mitzy Carlough.
Read the whole thing, which is actually part 9 of an article that I cited three other times: Boetti & Boetti (part 1), Astrakhan Coats and Techno-Utopianism (part 3), and Progressive Afghanistan (part 4).
I’m thinking “Grasspunk” is a fantastic name as well.
Well thanks, Talnik. It’s open enough to allow all sorts of interpretations.