
Erving Goffman and the microworld of communication

Erving Goffman and the microworld of communication
This open-source software project identifies inferences between two or more bodies of text, and uses the inferences to create poems. Both an interface for performance and a practical tool, this environment will take textual inputs, query them for semantic matches, and generate the common concepts (ordered by frequency) using the semantic data. The generated concepts [...]
He always came back for an early dinner and gave me his notebooks to transcribe. They were full of scribbles about survival. He had many unfinished musings on how the word changed in different forms and tenses. Survivor. Survived. Surviving. To survive someone. He described the industrial area where he had spent most of his [...]
The official disappearance was declared on a Tuesday. It was almost dusk, and it had just rained. I remember clearly what he said. He turned to me and he said, but I can still see you. I remember again and again.
I am here to assure you that everything containing in this – [points to the text on the sheet of paper] – is now in there – [points to the screen, which has just warmed up and is glowing and then glowing more].
Understand that we do not wish to make you think too hard, because for us to come all this way (and speak up along about these issues despite all the concurrent discussion), and emerge only with a lot more thinking would be culturally doomed. Doom and discussion, we can find anywhere, and we can have [...]
// There is a certain thing that happens when you try to draw lines. You draw a few, and then you rethink them. And then you realize that those lines will never be a perfect basis for capturing the ways in which reality is conceivable through differentiation, so you just commit to a best approximation [...]
I read an article on the brain and then I read a whole textbook about it. The bedroom was public. So I took myself to the bathroom where I could lock the door. Lifted the same square from the floor. Childhood is stupid, and so is studying the self in a general way, unless you [...]
We listened to the speech on that rainy Thursday afternoon, feeling lost and small in the eager crowd. Although most politicized environments discouraged us, we knew this one was important, and we began to make out some kind of thread in the delivery. All worlds are escapes, and all beings are worlds. It is easy [...]
I wanted to be aware but not according to the breaking news. I wanted to be in the water, the water being the hands that can cover your whole skin at once. I ended up laughing and holding a long stick – a wide stream – wondering how wonderful it might be for someone else [...]
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