Metageum 2009
Coming up fast, over the last week of March, is the next Metageum conference. The last one was a fascinating event in Malta; this time, we’re in the slightly less megalith-rich, but hopefully more...
View ArticleWar & the Noble Savage
At first it was a part of a talk given early this year at Metageum in London. Then I thought I’d develop it into an essay. Then it seemed long enough to print as a nice pamphlet. It’s ended up being a...
View ArticleOctober Gallery talk media
The talk on War & the Noble Savage at the October Gallery this Tuesday just gone went pretty well. Some of the questions certainly picked up on blindspots in my presentation of my research, and I’m...
View ArticleForthcoming polar cosmology book
My current main writing project, a book on the history of cosmological fantasies and realities from the perspective of the polar axis, is well underway. Naturally I’ll post updates here as publication...
View ArticleMurdoch and the Aborigines
CC licensed image by David Shankbone The phone hacking scandal in the UK is moving quickly. Senior media and police resign, and the storm starts gathering around Downing Street. The immorality of the...
View ArticleWade Davis on endangered cultures
Via Tom Cheetham, an interesting talk from Wade Davis:
View ArticleSurvival International slams Jared Diamond’s new book
I haven’t read Jared Diamond’s new book, The World Until Yesterday. I’ve enjoyed his other work, and this one seems interesting. I read Wade Davis’ recent book The Wayfinders. I’m so immersed in more...
View ArticleClimbing Ben Nevis for Survival International
On 1st June 2013 I’m doing the 11-mile trek up Ben Nevis to raise money for Survival International. Survival is the only organization working worldwide for tribal people’s land rights and human rights....
View ArticleTracks Across the Sand
I just finished watching a remarkable DVD from anthropologist / filmmaker Hugh Brody. Tracks Across the Sand follows the progress of a land claim made by ‡Khomani San people, hunter-gatherers...
View ArticleLucumi talk at the October Gallery
This autumn, the founder and host of the Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness lecture series, David Luke, is on sabbatical in the wilds of Wales. He’s passed the baton on to yours truly to bring you...
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