structuralism ⁽⁵⁾

Part 1 is here. (Or substack) I decided to start here with saying what Mary Douglas’ framework is not, i.e. write a negative gist. There is a helpful page 212 which lists the misunderstandings in Perri 6 and Paul Richards’ 2017 intellectual biography Mary Douglas: Understanding Social Thought and Conflict. This is 4 pages from the end of the book,…

vowels space, flocks of birds, mapping plans, composing ourselves intently We see our bones as our both innermost and outlasting remains, rarely do we think of them as the fossils of our movements, except when they ache. We can feel our bones structure us like a building’s walls, but outside of that intent, we quake in life regardless. The difference…

St Ciarán's Church overlooking the harbour Image: Colin Park via CC BY-SA 2.0 via eoceanic.com In Divining the…—gap I mentioned St Ciarán and the ruins of a stone church, making special with the dead, because sacrifice, amid the holy graves and their lovely bones. And in this sacred loss, a ruined wall with the gaps of a wooden structure in…

Christopher Brennan calls the gaping issue an ‘annoying wobble between’. I like that, it is less pompous than my Janus dancing the two-faced ratios. My wife Mona went to ante-natal exercises called Pregnastics here in Hobart, and her classmate, an old friend, Anitra, said that it was ‘really just a wobble and a chat’. Our to-be-born child is now 21…

Like the post Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art, this is mostly about the preface. Purity and Danger was originally published in 1966, a year after I was born. In Categories versus practices: moral leadership & teenagers running amok I briefly rail against the methodology of using categories as resolution for a 'digital scanner' of social realities (in…