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 30, 2017

Mood Music - how the intellectuals have made sense of our system

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In the decade after the 1929 Great Crash, capitalism had been in such deep trouble that its very legitimacy was being questioned. Almost ...

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Exemplary Critics

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I’m a great fan of diagrams – apart from giving us a breathing space from text, they show that the writer is aware that we all operate wit...

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Understanding the mess we're in

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The left-right scale has a long history – the left label coming in the 20th century to designate people on the basis of their attitude ...

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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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