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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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

THE GREAT ACCELERATION

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A superb treat for my readers today... Peter Russell is, for my money, one of the most interesting writers about CHANGE – one of my favouri...

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Explaining the blog's title

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The blog was ten years old last autumn – making it one of the longest-running (english-speaking) blogs of its kind. It first saw the ligh...

Sunday, November 1, 2015

When will they ever learn?

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“Change” is one of these words that has had me salivating for half a century. According to poet Philip Larkin, “ Sexual intercourse bega...

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Where is the shared Understanding and Vision?

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There must be tens of thousands of books (in the English language) about the global financial crisis and the deeper malaise it revealed ...

Friday, June 27, 2014

Round up the Usual Suspects!

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One of the questions which nags away at me is why “progressives” don’t spend more time trying to seek a consensus agenda which can halt ...

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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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