Aloha,
On 2/14/2006 at 10:16 PM Sabina Magliocco wrote:
>For me, the essence of ethnography is that ability to shift easily and at
will
>between frames of reference, worldviews and points of view, and to be able
>to make those views clear to all audiences.
It strikes me that fluent shifting of frames of reference, world views,
points of
view, and, perhaps, skill sets, personae, and a few other things makes a
fruitful
description of Neo-Pagan magical enterprise.
>But then, as someone who grew up between two cultures, speaking several
>languages almost from birth, this back-and-forth shifting of
>consciousness, as well as the obviously relative nature of all identity,
>seems as natural to me as breathing. From someone else's perspective, it
>may all very well sound like crazy postmodern psychobabble.
Well, we live in a mostly *crazy* world where thanks to technology
millions of us can do things *normally* that would have been grounds
for institutionalization a generation or two ago--talking to non-present
third-parties in the midst of ongoing face-to-face interactions, for
instance. Or talking to these non-present third parties, often with
intrusive loudness, when others are watching but not interacting
with the speaker.
In this context, what magic needs is a convincing version of the
wireless telephone/camera/music player/text messager. Yes!
That's it! Magic awaits the aeon of the All-Seeing Eye-Pod!
Musing Can We Rely On Technology To Denote Our Sanity? Rose,
Pitch
<<There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.>>
--Henry Miller
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