staying indoors, staying here tonight, because i'm tired and 'cause freaking everything is due next week. trying to start...sketching out how to perform on this exam. notes from recitation--

1st lecture, Peters, "why do we seek..." re: SETI project
.quest to comm with others concerns how we think about human comm
.your standard of interpersonal comm--"high ideals," soul share, etc
    connection vs solipsism, isolation
    hopeful, despairing
(and why is it easier sometimes with strangers?)
."how are you doing?" ritual; arbitrary or convention --don't mean anything? or?*
.beyond getting your needs met (animals do that...!?)
.convention vs "true" comm-->but convention conveys own things/stuff
.agency/power in language, or not--Bakhtan (speak with baggage of hist, culture, every time individ speaks he speaks with years and bodies, tongues), Sapir Whorf
    the conve of language, "we don't speak language, lang speaks us"
.so, we do comm, but individ can be stamped out/muffled...whole pt is, we are agents, bodies of lang playing roles/"itself" out
.but why the sep of individ w/ his position in, standpt?? why is the kind of "hist"/position lang unsatisfying, not valid alone?

why is that invalid? why do we resist it? (a clear answer __ ...)