Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

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Monday, July 25, 2022

US vanity

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This blog does not pretend to be familiar with military strategy but, ever since Vietnam, I have doubted US claims to military supremacy. It...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Toward the End

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Faithful readers will know that, at the start of the new millennium, I started to express my own personal anxieties about the direction ...

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Long Descent

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I’ve been quiet because I’ve been reading two books which, in different ways, expose the fragility of the world around us; and the theori...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Facing the end of the world we have known

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I’ve now had the chance to read Dmitry Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse; the Soviet Experience and American Prospects which I referred to a co...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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