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, June 24, 2019

Reason as the servant of Passion

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One of the delights of my house in the Carpathian Mountains is the library – with books cascading from shelving which started almost 20 y...

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Plus Ca Change....???

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About 25 years ago I first doodled a little table which tried to identify the key subjects which had divided opinion in each of the decade...

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

In Praise of the Documentary

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I have come late to the work of documentarist Adam Curtis. I had registered a year or so ago his The Century of the Self (2002) which to...

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

From Freud to Focus Groups

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Television is banned from two of the three places I currently call home but a Torrent service I have access to in Sofia has, over the past...

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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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