See David Goode (2007) Playing with my Dog, Katie: An Ethnomethodological Study of Canine-human Interaction. Ashland, Ohio: Purdue University Press.I looked up "ethomethodology" on Shitipedia and I guess it must be some kind of anthropology of the everyday life of one's own society.
So that would be appropriate.
While I was there, linking through from links to links like a demented golfer, I found a reference to Martin Heidegger.
Not sure how he's connected with ethnomethodology, but it seems to have something to do with broken hammers.
Last time mine broke, I didn't think about it at all; just chucked it and got a new one.
So how you can do a philosophy of broken hammers is beyond me.
Maybe like this:
To the point then ...
This Heidegger bloke says we're all thrown into being.
What he doesn't seem to say is that whoever did the throwing gave us a bloody good thrashing in advance.
That's why we're all so damaged to start with.
The christists call it "original sin".
But then the really great philosopher (Keith Richards) once said: "Original sin? If I knew what that was, I'd go out and do it".
So that can't be right.
My take then: if we're like hammers, we arrive broken and have to fix ourselves before we die.
Of course ... we can't do that.
Which is why we're constantly in need of some thing or someone that can.
But there ain't no such thing.
End of lesson.
Now here's your homework ....
