Harold Garfinkel (Creative Commons photo. By Arlene Garfinkel - Garfinkel's family, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12017435)
While we wait for Michael Johnson to write the definitive article (or book) about Thomas Pynchon and Robert Anton Wilson, here is another can't-miss Substack piece: "Robert Anton Wilson and Ethnomethodology," on the influence of famed sociologist Harold Garfinkel on RAW. The Wikipedia article on Garfinkel provides some background, but Michael has some great additional angles. I have not had a Harold Garfinkel as a label on a post until now, so this is apparently an underrated influence.
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Garfinkel and ethnomethodology could be better known in general. Kudos to M. Johnson for helping with that with this excellent article. Garfinkel taught Castaneda at UCLA and served as his advisor for his master thesis and for his phd which ended up as books about the semi-fictional (some say totally fictional) Don Juan Matus.
I still have my copies of Garfinkle's "Studies in Ethnomethodology" I bought in the 80s on Bob's recommendation. Bob and I used to discuss Garfinkle's suspicious (at the time) connection to Castaneda.
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