So, I'm reading this while in quarantine, 6 to 8 excerpts at a time of this. Today's section was 'Ways of Thinking and Communicating'. Robin Dunbar (him of the Dunbar number) kicks off with some basics, and then a piece by Terence Deacon that had me wanting to re-watch "Arrival." Claude Levi-Strauss calling it like... Continue Reading →
She's not actually biting, but yeah, nibbling. The reality of "these four walls" for another 6 days (assuming I don't get infected). First world problems and all that... Couldn’t sleep (woke at 4pm. Lay in bed listening to the bloody BBC World Service, then got up Read my quota from Introductory Readings in Anthropology and... Continue Reading →
Another day, another 7 or 8 excerpts from the Introducing Anthropology book. We're on to section 1.2,The Body Simon Underdown isn't messing about "Race is one of the most misunderstood terms in modern science, misused by seasoned scientists and laymen alike. Put simply, there are no human races, just the one species: Homo sapiens The... Continue Reading →
tl:dr - Two academics have written a good "here's how Tony Gramsci can fill in some of the major gaps in the MLP and maybe make it useful" article. On the downside, it's probably only particularly accessible to folks who know their Gramscia and their sustainability transitions stuff. The article is called "Regime resistance and... Continue Reading →
Half way there, and had a half way decent sleep for about half the night. Woke up at five, non-groggy. Read six extracts from an anthropology book, as you do (blogged here). Did some more indexing of the wonderful "Magpie" newsletter of the Manchester Wildlife group while listening to ABC radio Adelaide, which had the... Continue Reading →
The Planning Fallacy rules my life. And I' [redacted] years of age. I brought this book with me, with the good intention of reading it while in quarantine. I'd bought it (two quid) a couple of weeks previously, at a charity event. Yeah, right. Fortunately, today is day 7 of Quarantine (7 more to go)... Continue Reading →
Sigh. Sleep patterns back to square two or three. And THEN I managed to get my timezones out by an hour, so the meeting I thought I was getting to early?... was just finishing. All was not lost, but v. annoying. Did a bunch of grunt work after that, somewhat sleep deprived. Then got my... Continue Reading →
It's Day Five in the Big Bother house, and the contestants are settling into a routine. Got some proper Dodo last night, or rather, lay in bed and dodoed intermittently and when it seemed like I wasn't going to dodo I resisted the urge to get up and tap away at this lap top like... Continue Reading →
Would that it were so easy to be ideologically pure.
The French philosopher Blaise Pascal said that all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Well, I'm testing that hypothesis. It's going... well, I think. Crap sleep last night, of course. Found myself waking at midnight and just going with the flow, did a couple of hours of work (some of it work work,... Continue Reading →
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