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”.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Britain needs a shot in the arm!

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I left the UK 29 years ago. Three of my daughters and 2 sons-in-law still live in a country I once admired and whose fortunes I still care ...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Networks, networks everywhere....

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In “The Square and the Tower”, Niall Ferguson admits that, as an historian, his focus had been written archives and that official documents...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Clive James RIP

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For the past decade we have known that Clive James was living on borrowed time…his life since then has been one long tribute to the books h...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

My role in the Networking of society

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Niall Ferguson is not normally an author whose imperialist histories would interest me but I hadn’t heard of his latest (?) title The Squar...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

More surveillance - less capitalism

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Shoshana Zuboff is a highly respected academic who has been investigating the effects of information technology on the worlds of work and, ...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

For new readers

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The clocks went back an hour during the night – as they did ten years ago as I was starting this blog which then bore the name of “Carpa...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

A Rare example of inter-disciplinarity

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Readers know how distasteful I find the ever-increasing narrowness of academic disciplines. The very second post this year's blog posed...
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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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