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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Sunday, January 12, 2014

The perversities of modern power

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Over the past year or so, I have been coming back to some questions I first posed a decade ago – namely how people of my age (disgusted ...

Sunday, December 8, 2013

What is to be done?

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The discussion thread to the David Simon article is worth looking at. It confirms my view that few people are taking the time or trouble t...

Breaking out from an insane world

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It’s highly appropriate that, at the end of the week during which I have been thinking and about blogging the difficulties what, for lack ...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Draft Guide for the Perplexed

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Some 12-13 years ago I drafted a paper with the rather odd title “Living for Posterity” which was - "one man’s attempt to explore h...

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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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