The Myth of the Noble Savage
Debunking is a delicate process. At least, it should be. All too often a “myth” (in the modern sense of a false image of something) is debunked in a way that is almost wilfully blind to the baby in the...
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The Animated World
Photo by Caroline Forbes An Interview with Patrick Harpur by Gyrus Like many others, I was switched on to Patrick Harpur‘s writings in the ’90s through reading the subtly mind-blowing survey of...
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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...
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War & 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 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...
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Tracks 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...
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Lucumi 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...
View ArticleEmbrace of the Serpent
This is one of the most interesting, beautiful and evocative films I’ve seen in a long time. A genuinely different cinematic take on the jungle, a welcome and gruelling exposure of the horrors behind...
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