Some notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction as I […]

“Inexpressible Love to write – Enticements, arguments, and impasses generated by the desire to “express” amorous feeling in a “creation” (particularly of writing). Two powerful myths have persuaded us that […]

I am collecting beautiful objects. A pair of shoes. Some glasses. Telephone. Typewriter. They are made from wool and felt. With apparent stitches. Their delicate, unfinished appearance is friendly. And […]

“To care about something is more than just happening to believe that something is valuable or to want or to desire something to be the case. Believing, wanting and desiring […]

I have a Murakami problem. I cannot stop consuming his words and immersing in his life worlds. It all began nine weeks ago when I decided that I could no […]

… one major methodological weakness of some of the earlier studies…[was] an ethnocentric tendency to define the phenomenon in terms of its specific attributes in one’s own culture… these studies […]

… you’re certainly right when you say that compared with Klamm I’m a nobody, and despite the fact that I’m now asking to speak to Klamm and am not even […]

“Between us there is always transcendence, not as an abstraction or a construct, a fabrication of the same grounding its origin or measuring its development, but as the resistance of […]

Looking at the castle, K. felt at times as if he was watching a person who was sitting there quietly, staring straight ahead, not so much lost in thought and […]

“The issue the Diary presents, with a force perhaps only a working ethnographer can fully appreciate, is not moral; it is epistemological. If we are going to cling – as […]

“A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. He walks and halts to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with […]