A social movement is a collectivity or a collective enterprise.
The only reference to a collectivity Searle incorporates into his account, the plural indexical 'we,' is taken to be primitive and accessible to a solipsistic analysis (cf. Searle 1990: 415).
It is what Sister Edgar does, first wilfully, in devoting herself to God, and then miraculously, by ascending into cyberspace, "the lunar milk of the data stream", a collectivity of brain or soul (what Teilhard de Chardin called the "noosphere"), which seems to forecast both the death of the printed book and the eternal life of some new universal mind, or in Whitman's terms, "soul".
The body becomes a manifestation of a collectivity to be obliterated, its manipulation rendering what was once a human person into an "abominable stranger".
As a collectivity, a social movement is characterized by an emergent social structure and a culture.
Like a group, a social movement is a collectivity with a common goal and shared values.
Mind is many-threaded, mazy, meandering, while every crowd turns out to be a machine -- a collectivity of parts united as to purpose.
In radio, television, and the cinema the medium is fluent; the audience is a collectivity and is at the mercy of time.
In Greek tragedy the heroic past was presented and explored by a chorus of nonheroic individuals; hence the meaning of the inherited myths was examined by a collectivity that can be seen as standing for the wider collectivity (more than 10,000 in number) that constituted the audience at the plays.
A collectivity, by contrast, remains identifiable as the same collectivity even though its membership changes.
