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Posted on May 5, 2018May 4, 2018

Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”

From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog:   In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…

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Posted on March 17, 2017March 19, 2017

“People who are not expecting to cry will cry.”

I would not necessarily expected to have found an article on what will happen when Queen Elizabeth II dies as gripping as I did, but Sam Knight’s piece in the Guardian is…

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Posted on July 6, 2016July 6, 2016

#Brexit, the populist surge and the crisis of complexity — Paul Arbair

Thank you Paul Arbair who commented on a brief reference in my  post on Joseph Tainter to Brexit in Tainterian (sic) terms with a link to his own far far far…

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Posted on June 30, 2016February 6, 2017

The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter

Somewhere along the way I came across references to Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies and finally read it in recent weeks. Tainter’s prose style reminded me a little of John…

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