And we're done. I read, and blogged, a 400 page text book while in quarantine. The plan is to keep that habit (if not tempo) up over the coming 67+ days that I am out in the unReal World that is the world's biggest country town (Adelaide). Section 5 - "Anthropology in the World" was... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow I leave this room that has been "home" for 14 and a half days. I will be escorted to the ground floor, collect a piece of paper, show it to the cops, and then out into the world (all the while with a mask on). I will be collected by my mother and then... Continue Reading →
Penultimate chunk of reading the "Introductory Readings in Anthropology" book. It has definitely helped with the quarantine, and if - gaia forbid - I spend another two weeks coupled up somewhen and somewhere, then a big fat textbook about something I want to know about (systems ecology? social movements? critical race theory? surveillance and digital... Continue Reading →
The days really are bleeding into each other now. I saw humans in the flesh for only about the fourth time in two weeks, when two came to stick a cotton bud down my gob. I read, I exercised, I wrote a blog about what I'd read. I worked (not as much as I had... Continue Reading →
Am seriously loving this book. It makes me wonder about all the gems I have back in Manchester and whether I have time to read them before The Shit Hits The Fan for me too (must never forget it has been and is hitting for many others, who tend not to be human, or white... Continue Reading →
I've said it before, and will again. I am one of the luckiest people I know. Not in the Domino in Deadpool 2 kind of way, more structurally. Grew up in Australia when social democracy was still a thing. Got to see the world (south east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, USA) with parents in 1977/8.... Continue Reading →
Damn this is the way to satiate my pathological curiosity. Find a recent introductory text book aimed at undergrads and just read from cover to cover over the course of a week or so. Already have my eye on a book on systems ecology... But, getting ahead of myself. So, today the first few articles... Continue Reading →
Before I left England, a thousand years ago, I was beginning to realise that there is a societal covid brain fog thing going on, whether you had had the damn virus or not. Everyone just getting hazy, crazy etc. Well, from that baseline, I suppose I should be compassionate towards myself, and 11 days without... Continue Reading →
Am very much enjoying this "Introductory Readings to Anthropology" book, and it makes me think I could read similar on ecology and a bunch of other things. If I write enough each day, that can be my reward!? Today was all identity and rituals (of cleansing, boundary management, liminality - van Gennep etc). As they... Continue Reading →
Little to report. Sleep patterns still, um, interesting. Was awake for Federer's four-set victory, and then again for the England four goal victory starting at four thirty. Watched "Insiders" at 830. Nobody could be bothered to point out that Scotty from Marketing is just lifting Dan Andrews' ideas and re-badging them. A LibSpill is possible.... Continue Reading →
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