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SOS, by Backswing
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Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such gatherings, they hold the wall, not approaching, not asking, not risking the awkward overture that has been the entry-cost of human pairing for as long as human pairing has been formalized into ritual occasions. The panelist asked why, and answered himself. They are afraid of being recorded. They are afraid that any silly thing they say or any failed dance step or any drunk confession will be filmed and uploaded and used against them by people they cannot identify in advance. So they withdraw. The species, the panelist concluded, cannot continue under such conditions, and the only available remedy is to restrict the technology that produced those conditions. […]I am weighing up the explosion of outraged horror that would result if I asked my sociologist parents if they think Erving Goffman might have been autistic. It would really be something, but maybe we could work through it to have a conversation I would find useful about autistic strengths.
Goffman was by many accounts a pretty intense guy with a piercing ability to detect and articulate the unspoken social scripts and stage personas operating in any given social situation — even as it was unfolding. He startled colleagues by interrupting them to share his analysis of the small talk they were making with each other.
(Perhaps that was just him being the Great White Cishet Intellectual Man, but let's be real, the overlap between the privileges of that social role and the accommodation of autistic deficits is considerable.)
But I am really more interested in his strengths. His ability to identify deep patterns and his relative lack of respect for the very social norms he was describing both ping pretty loudly on my radar for fellow autistic folks.
He also practiced intellectual empathy to a fairly radical extent. His book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity is the best place to start on reading his work. He uses the word 'normals' throughout to refer to people who are unaffected by stigma (or successfully manage it). It is hilariously insulting 😂
He also marshals so many examples of the many and varied ways in which stigmas present that it was very clear he had been paying very close attention to the lived experiences of marginalised groups. He doesn't call for sympathy for them: rather he practices a deeply intellectual curiosity that mobilises their experience rather than objectifying it.
Again, this cognitive rather than emotional form of empathy pings on my neurodivergent radar.
I imagine my parents making two strong objections: you can't diagnose people at a distance, and he's dead, which is a considerable distance. (Maybe I can train an AI on his work and ask it? I kid, I kid.) Second, it may not make sense to diagnose anachronistically, i.e. using a 2000s definition of autism to describe someone born in the early 1900s.
But autistic folks need to recognise our strengths and perhaps even claim our heroes. Whether he was or not, Goffman's strengths and peculiarities make him someone I admire.
Intrusion et renfermement
"Stigma and the Dehumanization of Palestinians: A Goffmanian Perspective"
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui
https://twitter.com/sabreenags
https://drsabreena.com/stigma-and-the-dehumanization-of-palestinians-a-goffmanian-perspective/
# El poder psiquiátrico y la sociología de la enfermedad mental: un balance
José Luis Moreno Pestaña
En este artículo se analiza la visión de #Foucault sobre la enfermedad mental en dos de sus cursos de los años 70: El poder psiquiátrico y Los anormales. Durante el análisis se compara a Foucault con Erving #Goffman y se establecen los límites y las virtudes del filósofo francés. Finalmente se propone, inspirándose en Ian #Hacking, un modelo para la #sociología de la #enfermedadmental.
Abolire il carcere: una sfida per la riforma della giustizia penale
L'Italia di fronte a un bivio: riformare il sistema carcerario o abolirlo?
Il sistema carcerario italiano soffre da tempo di mali cronici: sovraffollamento, costi esorbitanti, recidiva dilagante e condizioni di vita spesso precarie. Questi problemi no
https://www.magozine.it/abolire-il-carcere-una-sfida-per-la-riforma-della-giustizia-penale/
#Controinformazione #Guide #RecensioniLibri #carcere #foucault #goffman