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Some Notes on the Play of Basketball in its Circumstantial Detail, and an Introduction to Their Occasion

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In the late 1980s, I wrote up some notes on the play of pick-up basketball and sent them to Harold Garfinkel, who incorporated them into an un-published monograph in 1988. They were motivated by an interest in exhibiting the sense of “detail” for ethnomethodological studies. An edited version is presented below. They follow a front piece of recollection and discussion about Garfinkel’s distinctive interests in matters of “detail,” their tie to structure and structure’s circumstantiality, and their place in EM studies.

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There is a cognate situation with normal statistical measures of ‘significance,’ and its Bayesian critique. Though apparently quite confused, and confusing, the familiar practice of the clinical trials model simply cannot admit the critique. The presses would have to stop. The pharmaceutical research industry, alongside the scientistic educational industry, would have to post a hiatus. The posting can be neither imagined nor done. Thus the critique, apparently impeccable in its mathematical-conceptual credentials, can only be ignored (See Siegfried 2010, for a review).

These relations show an ‘essential reflexivity’ and thus write a deep critique of the pursuit of causative relations.

"A catalog of investigations with which to respecify topics of logic, order, meaning, method, reason, structure, science, and the rest, in, about, and as the working of immortal, ordinary society just in any actual case. What did we do? What did we learn?" (October 17, 1993)

To Harold's remarks on ‘the catalog,' Dusan Bjelic began speaking of the "praxitorium," a collection of studies in their materiality, wherein, for having to master the release of the weights of Galileo's pendulum in your own hands, for example, one might find the dense embodiment that subsequent accounts of ‘discovery' erase (Bjelic 2003).

The asterisk is a familiar flag in his writings, alerting the reader to a tendentious usage of otherwise ordinary words and phrases. Here he remarks,

We use detail* tendentiously in order to remain faithful to the essentially unavoidable and essentially achieved quiddity of lived organizational things, and with that achieved quiddity, to make discoverable and to respecify the awesome achievements, in and as the lived orderliness of practical action, of structure… (91)

The graphics that follow were produced on a Mac Classic. In honor of this technical history, they have not been re-visioned.

I’m borrowing the “whoosh” from John Horwitz and his collaborators in their study of pedestrian street crossings. They were graduate students at UCLA; John was studying with Mike Moerman. The ‘whoosh' was a gloss for how pedestrians, on either side of the street, waiting for the signal to turn, begin their traverse, and somewhere in the middle of the street, negotiate their passage through and between one another. The ‘whoosh' is an observer's phenomenon. Those engaged, do it. Their eyes are fixed elsewhere, yet the ‘whoosh' is their production. On the floor, trailers see it too.

In truth, these things can’t be imagined, and they aren’t. They are rather produced and found in the emerging and receding coherences that constitute the play of the game. They are only recognizably so.

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Titel: Some Notes on the Play of Basketball in its Circumstantial Detail, and an Introduction to Their Occasion
verfasst von: Douglas Macbeth
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2012
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Human Studies / Ausgabe 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0163-8548
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-851X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-012-9235-z

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