{"id":350,"date":"2005-06-10T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/identification-and-context\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:07:41","slug":"identification-and-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/identification-and-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification and context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an amusing incident.  I was on BART on my way to work, and was lounging in a seat reading my Economist with my music playing.  Somebody taps my leg as they&#8217;re walking by.  I look up, see a guy smiling at me, and I know I recognize him, but I have no idea from where.  I&#8217;m thinking, not a coworker, not frisbee, not MIT&#8230;  He saw the confusion in my face, took mercy on me, and said &#8220;Micah, from the chorus&#8221;.  And I was &#8220;Oh, hi!&#8221;  I felt stupid, because I should have recognized him &#8211; after all, he was part of <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/chorus\/messiahfrontrow.txt>this memorable story from the chorus<\/a>.  But seeing him outside of the chorus context threw my brain for a loop.  I&#8217;ve <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/social-context-in-the-monkeysphere\/>mentioned this phenomenon before<\/a>, where our ability to identify people is tied to certain contexts, and I don&#8217;t think I have too much more to add, except to wonder briefly how it ties into <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/identity-as-context\/>identity as context<\/a>, and all of the <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/filtered-world-views\/>Latour-ian madness<\/a>.  There&#8217;s probably a connection there someplace, but I should be working, so I won&#8217;t explore it right now.  Kick me in a few days if I haven&#8217;t gotten back to it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an amusing incident. I was on BART on my way to work, and was lounging in a seat reading my Economist with my music playing. Somebody taps my leg as they&#8217;re walking by. I look up, see a guy smiling at me, and I know I recognize him, but I have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}