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”.

Friday, July 9, 2021

The "expandable" book

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One of my favourite television watching is Seinfeld which ran for almost a decade from its 1989 start and has 180 episodes. One of them has...

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

We Are on our Own

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I need some help in writing the conclusion to my "Dispatches to the Next Generation" which is my attempt to answer some existentia...

Monday, July 5, 2021

Politics will be very different in the AI age

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Political parties may now be using algorithms and selectively targeting citizens with their messages – but, fundamentally, lack the courage ...

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Dear Diary

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You wonder why publishers would ever publish anything written by politicians – most recent political memoirs and biographies certainly land ...

Friday, June 25, 2021

Cultural Values, cultural theory and Cultural Wars

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“ Whenever I hear the word “culture” I reach for my gun ” is a quip attributed generally to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s intellectual propagand...

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Mapping values and world views

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We need to pay more attention to our mind - and to the different patterns of meaning we create in our efforts to make sense of the world. ...

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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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