Jargon Correct On: Liminal Meanings

"Jointly constructed participant frameworks help to establish whether an utterance is taken as earnest, sarcastic, playful, hostile, and so on, while establishing the target(s) of the utterance".

Social scenes play a part in communicating the earnestness, sarcasm, playfulness, hostility, and so on, of a given expression while implying who the message is for and about.

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On Social Justice: They See Only Bathwater

We have a problem here. Always. Having not read the book Medical Apartheid I have stood besides a woman who noticed another woman who was seated and hold this book. Should I give some thick description? I know neither besides some general, easily identifiable observation of identity. Both female. The one seated was is a headdress that read Muslim. The one standing besides me was dressed for the humid weather of the morning. The heat had eased after the late morning thunder storms. The bus kicked up the dirty water and smashed some on the sidewalk where a woman pushed a carriage. We three in the bus are in a historical moment which it seems to make the national discourse resemble a college seminar led by priests. In other words, there is a tradition of this. Ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class are the concepts of interests and intersections too are contested. A few weeks ago a lesbian Jew at the Chicago Pride march was asked to leave. Here pink flag of Israel was triggering...

On Somatics: Not Discarding the Body

Rosaldo's Grief and a Headhunter's Rage says something to my thoughts on the 5 Excellences. His understanding of the headhunters' practices required a lived experience of the words he heard from the informants. His informants on headhunting were responding to their grief, which he thought of as deep sadness, until Rosaldo himself experienced grief. When he felt the rage of grief he could then understand that headhunters were venting this aspect of grief when capturing their prey, murdering them, and discarding their heads. The word rage hadn't stood out in their informant's data until he was a respondent to his own analysis of the grief he felt over his brother's death and then his wife's. He now held visceral knowledge of grief and its many flavors; how it shocks one's being and produces profound experiences that can then be made into profound meaning. Relating this to his data on headhunters brought in a wider range of possibility in the importance of ...

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