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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Thursday, March 15, 2012

The way we live now

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This blog has mentioned several times the advantages of the semi-nomadic life. Since renting the flat in Sofia last April, I’ve accumulate...

Friday, April 1, 2011

Impervious power

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The good news when I went online during the night was that I had gained three more Bulgarian paintings – I’ve actually lost count of how ma...

Saturday, January 8, 2011

In praise of austerity

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The art blog I mentioned yesterday reproduces a range of quiet interior paintings by a 19th century Danish artist Hamersoi in which our at...

Sunday, August 8, 2010

changing the system of greed and incompetence

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First a tribute to Tony Judt , the British writer, historian and professor who has just died at age 62 after a two-year struggle with moto...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

weather for reading

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gloomy mist all around the house at my 1,300 metre level. At 07.00 the light is so poor that I need the lamp to read Andrew Robert's The...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

A treatise on our present discontents

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Today’s literary discovery – thanks to one of my favourite websites - - is an essayist called Joseph Epstein who muses about the approach o...

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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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