DisruptiveSociability
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The disruptive sociability page (hosted by the BarnabySnap faculty) will explore behaviour that is harmless, but highly disruptive. Disruptive sociability is the art of living in such a way that it distresses other people eventhough they know that there is no real reason to be distressed. Disruptive sociability is that sort of behaviour that is called mad but isn't
examples are:
- hermits ( http://www.hermitary.com )
- hardcore peripatetics
- monks/nuns
- turriphiliacs ( http://www.jeffers.org/reviews/review2.html )
- inventers (the ones working in the basement at home)
- artists (some of them)
- geeks (most of them)
[edit] Case Studies:
- Henry David Thoreau
If anybody, Thoreau exemplifies disruptive sociability.
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels."
http://socialfiction.org/psychogeography/thoreau.html
- Konrad Zuse
The inventor, at least the type featured in films and comics, tries to built something that only exists in a vision. In many ways the inventor is similar to the certain breed of artists that create art to be out of this world. In the case of Konrad Zuse, the two are combined because he built the first digital computer during WW2, in is his basement.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html
- William Godwin
Godwin is regarded as the first anarchist. But anarchism was only one of many philosophies he subscribed to during his life. This can either be explained as that Godwin had a very flexible personality or a very superficial one. What counts in respect to this theme, is that people changing their opinions like dirty underwear get very little respect from anybody, even though there might be some truth in each and every contradicting way of explaining the world.
