Classical Viennese queues Standing in a queue, you never know who is behind and in front of you. Each individual in itself is its own little univer…
Karla Mahler
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Classical Viennese queues Standing in a queue, you never know who is behind and in front of you. Each individual in itself is its own little universe to be explored. As I see it from a Cultural and Social Anthropologist‘s perspective, opposed to the individual we have the notion that some phenomena occur with a certain probability in our surroundings, which inscribe and repeat themselves in belief patterns, behavioral codes, institutions and other modes of daily life and life cycles. This might be the closest thing I can offer as a definition of the word „culture“, and I do that very carefully and very aware of the fact that this definition is unable to reflect its entirety. T his probability could also be described as an overall feeling, like the background radiation of space we know of, but never feel, as we see it as a given. Meaning, we take things for granted and expect a certain reaction from our opposites – we make a prognosis of anticipated behavior. Never before have I ever been so
6. Januar 2025