The Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS)

The Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS) ORIGINAL POST

My attention was recently brought to an apparently noteworthy institution in the UK, The Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS) http://www.scis-calibrate.org/index.htm

Their aims appear heterodox as they engage research across disciplines to provoke original thinking and cross-functionalty among various academic interests and those willing to forgoe a typical entry into scholarly pursuits or those seemingly trapped in the digressios of interesting but difficult to fully categorize topics. In this they might be defined as dualistic and otherwise diffusive. Perhaps vision is multifaceted and quite diverse?

Such purposes are somewhat kindred to my own muddy hooved frolic in my readings. It is encouraging to know that their founders and notable advisory board include a range of field leaders pressing the borders and limits of contemporary lethargy or thought apparently in and amongst their own minds first. Their advisors appear formidable indicators of their individual and collective talents among them being: Prof John Friedmann (British Columbia, UCLA), Prof Ernesto Laclau (Essex, Northwestern, New School for Social Research), Prof Francis Schüssler Fiorenza (Harvard Divinity School), and Prof Michael J. Watts (Berkeley).

It was a nice introduction and reminded me of how I felt the day Google Korea wrote to request my assistance in sourcing a new HR Manager. Perhaps when one is ready, and patient enough, the fish do begin to gather around a tasty bit of discourse? One likes to read and one also likes to write. Freedom of thought is so necessarily precious. One must bob to find just the right dock and just the right bay.

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