Ideas

Commentary #5 Goffman

I think we are all conscious at some level of the differing roles we take on in our lives; as teachers, students, parents, children, siblings, spouses, friends. We are not only playing different roles in different situations, we play them…

Ethereal what?

You may well ask.  I argue in a number of places that things, like archives and communities, can be ethereal, that is existing only or mainly in the connections between people and groups.  Social connections and also links or data…