The view from the park: a legal psychogeography of the field

“When an individual plays a part he implicitly requests his observers to take seriously the impression that is fostered before them. They are ashed to belive that the character they see actually possesses the attributes he appears to possess, tha the task he performs will have the consequences that are implicitly claimed for it, and that, in general, matters are what they appear to be.” Erving Goffman, (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Anchor Books, New York. P.17. I recall us gleefully striding around the park after school. It was early evening, but summertime so still fully daylight. We had brought a telescope, but my memory has us striding around and not actually still enough to have set up it up. We were calling out, to whoever would listen (the universe as a whole?). We were looking for UFOs and this local hilltop park seemed the best place to do so. The mission had been a subject of contemplation for many days (or so it feels in recollection). Giddy on that glut…