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Jon Randell Smith's avatar

Loved this 🙌

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Karmela Padavic Callaghan's avatar

I relayed to a lot of this, and also the way you end - you can intellectualize and theorize who you are but at the end actually being that person is different. Thank you for sharing and the film work sounds so exciting!

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Jack Whalen's avatar

This was really fascinating - all of it, the performative self (especially the ‘teaching self’ voice!)especially

Erving Goffman (the writer who first sucked me in to sociology) would have absolutely loved this

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

ah thank you, jack! i have been amazed at how much the film crew & producers were so clearly aware of identities and cues for them. and oh my gosh, i remember reading and loving erving goffman during my grad school days but it has been a hot minute since i’ve read his work. thanks for inspiring me to return to it!

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