Paradigms Lost

“Paradigms Lost” is a socionarrative which can be read or performed. Through a variety of literary techniques (e.g., the flashback, dialogue, rhythm, enjambment, etc.), I detail the wide‐ranging consequences to my life and my family of a body‐trauma and coma. Through the tacit sociological framework, I concretely show how a self reconstructs itself through language; how conceptually separable social institutions permeate each other; and how the mind and body split does not work as a meaning‐making paradigm. I intend the article to work on multiple levels and to reach diverse audiences, including those who have experienced similar trauma. The debt immense of endless gratitude . John Milton