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We read. Douglas, Mary, and Steven Ney. 1998. Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences, The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy. Berkeley : New York: University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-520-20752-3 Douglas, Mary. 1996. Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste. London: SAGE publications. This deals with the changes in the ritualistic use of conspiracy theories…

In my opening of this series on reading Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I mention his use of Jean-Jacques Petter's term of noyau as a label for a society of inward antgonism (page 168). In the second post Figuring out the grounds beneath the world: noyau, lek and home I explore the noyau in relation to other similar notions in…

In the review of Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I cover my discovery of his book on my shelves. Here I wish to explore the implications, by which I think I mean metaphysics, but in a good way, that is… —poetically, of Ardrey’s use of Petter’s term noyau. The discussion of noyau, or noyaux in the French plural, is a…

In reshelving books on their shelves recently, with the two bookshelves themselves only returned to their place in the living room after we replaced the flooring, my eye lingered on a book cover. I did not recognise it, but it was familiar in the way one's infancy can return feelings. The book is then both unknown and known at the…