So far, "Invisibilia" has done a brilliant job of illuminating its subject, the invisible forces thoughts, feelings, expectations, assumptions, cultural norms that shape our lives.
Local microcultures express the multiplicity of goals, expectations, assumptions, and beliefs that are negotiated (mostly without realising it) in day-to-day business between managers, clinicians, patients and others.
Whatever happened between Tyler and his mother and however it left him feeling, I hope all parents are prompted by his death and by this case to ask themselves how they'd deal not only with a gay child but with any child growing into a person who doesn't conform to expectations, assumptions and wishes.
To some extent the very fact of the Pope's survey, broaching issues Catholics were once not encouraged to discuss, has raised expectations, assumptions which, whether justified or not, might be hard to satisfy.
Although Kalai and Lehrer's proof actually requires only a somewhat weakened version of this assumption, the problem persists: sophisticated Bayesian learning converges to Nash equilibrium only under special assumptions about players' prior coordinated expectations, assumptions that players might well fail to satisfy.
Masks allow for the subversion of conventional expectations and assumptions.
Such statements are based upon current beliefs, expectations and assumptions and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties.
But it would be strange if literary taste-making was the one place where gender expectations and assumptions played no role, wouldn't it?
The serious point that Bing's making is that our expectations and assumptions will have a tremendous amount to do with what happens over the next couple of years.
As Michele Alexander's excellent book The New Jim Crow has documented, our disparate enforcement of drug laws, as well as stop-and-frisk policies that target African-American nexclusivelyds exclusively, are creating a caste system sustaining expectations and assumptions that all but licence the outcome in the Zimmerman case.
