Self-interpreting Being

There is no other species than human beings who self-interpret innumerable interpretants called information.

Enlightenment

A Dubious Concept

As I walked, a car was coming from the opposite direction. We were not on a…

My Jesus Christ

When I was at the age of four or five, I was privileged to encounter Him.

We played a ball game like baseball on the playground of our kindergarten.

The game couldn’t be a serious one at all. We were just passing a free time.

Writing like Goffman

The Meaning of Ethnography

Would Erving Goffman, who is one of the greatest sociologists, be happy if he sees human society in the 21st century?

Torus or open-endedness

Stories have respective beginnings and ends. However, readers’ interpretations can be infinite. Hence, stories are often described as open-ended.

Different from ancient times, stories have come to be possessed by specific authors, rather than common goods…

Declarations

Downward vertical imagination

Exchanges are mundane practices for subsistence. We have been exchanging innumerable material and immaterial things to feed ourselves. Probably because of the banality, we rarely come to cast serious doubts about values in terms of which to exchange one for another. Very few…

Differentiating reflexivity

The meanings of mundane discursive practices

We talk even without any specific purpose. Despite the absence of purposes, talk provides us with benefits, such as a sense of belonging, release from tension, delightful moments…

Re-writing history

The aftermath of the launch of Trump administration finds George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ climbing up the chart of bestsellers in the US. Re-writing history is one of the critical themes that the incumbent authorities might be attempting as a means of controlling their subordinates.

Differntiating reflexivity

Introduction

Reflexivity is a contentious term. Academics may value it highly relating it to critical thinking. However, even some scholars doubt it as virtue simply because reflexivity is a quality that is beyond conscious control: there is no one…