A biology of action (19): You could say that experiences are deceiving, but you cannot say this if the goal of your description is the characterization of experiences and nothing else (22). A method for studying something always discovers only those possibilities that spring from a world the method creates. The perspective defines the phenomenon from the… Continue reading

Thinking is a struggle for order and at the same time for comprehensiveness. Thinking of the opposite of that with which you are directly concerned. Orient [yourself] to the central and continuing task of understanding the structure and the drift, the shape and the meanings, of your own period. Do not allow public issues as… Continue reading

  We are interested in subculture— in the expressive forms and rituals of those subordinate groups who are alternately dismissed, denounced and canonized we are intrigued by the most mundane objects which take on a symbolic dimension we must seek to recreate the dialectic between action and reaction which renders these objects meaningful (2). Subculture… Continue reading