>Whoa, that's one heck of an inductive leap from a small sample size.
>Subjectivities are both cause and effect, no? Doesn't Madison Avenue love
>Goffman too? It's not that Goffman is wrong, it's that his and others work
>affords the opportunity to turn people into black boxes/zombies; a plug
>and play theory of selfhood. Individuals and groups/classes are capable of
>creating subjectivities/modes of intentionality that afford breaking out
>of their institutional roles, no? Or is that something that's caught up in
>"the law of unintended consequences"?
>
>Ian
if that's what you think goffman is saying, NO, that's not it.
Kelley
foucault wasn't saying that about power, either.