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”.

Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Words

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I have always been fond of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets not only for its Zen like sense of time and the puniness of our efforts but for its ref...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Just Words?

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I’ve uploaded two papers in the last couple of days to my website – the first is a note in which I explore why my professional encounter wit...
Friday, December 17, 2010

The language of Deceit

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Ambrose Bierce was an American journalist in the latter part of the 19th Century whose pithy and tough definitions of everyday words, in h...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

words are important

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Great frustration – my windows system won’t open and I have lost the recent material I hadn’t saved on hard disc. Fortunately I noticed some...
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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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