• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Philosophers as situated in space and time, trying to muddle their way through

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

• Becoming who we are 

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Conduits for variety

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• Towards a Sociology of the Good Life

• The gaps in which being human happens

• There was no ‘I’ to do it, because the ‘I’ was the result

• Actor centred sociology

• And almost six years later it was finished…