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Dan Nixon

@dannixon.bsky.social
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Author of The Perpetual Beginner (Substack) inspired by Merleau-Ponty, Zen & Taoism. Mindfulness teacher, leadership development facilitator (Potential Project) and editor (LSE blogs)

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We tend to see the poor people who inject drugs in one of two ways: self-destructive, or passive victims of a broken system. But after years of fieldwork in San Francisco, @sarahbrothers.bsky.social found something else – see our latest blog post. #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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I met with the “hit doctors” who practice care without credentials
We see the very poor who inject drugs as either self-destructive or as passive victims of a broken system. But Sarah Brothers found something else.
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“I want to understand: Where are the taboos? Where are the things that we find difficult to talk about?” – Elif Shafak spoke to @afsee-lse.bsky.social about inequalities – and how literature can expand our worldview #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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How art and literature can expose inequalities – Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak discusses how art and literature can expose inequalities, break taboos and expand our worldview in an age of populist politics and polarisation
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Inequality is a political choice” The 56,000 wealthiest adults on the planet hold 3x as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity combined – but two policy levers could help redress the balance. @ricardo-eco.bsky.social of @wid.world explores #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/hT0Avna
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56,000 people own three times more wealth than half of humanity
The World Inequality Report 2026 notes how the world is extremely unequal, with wealth inequality still rapidly rising. Which policies could reduce inequality?
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“The growing movement of citizens' assemblies are bringing us right back to an Aristotelian notion of a true democracy” With neoliberalism increasingly unsustainable, @jeremylent.bsky.social explains what governance could look like in an “eco-civilization” #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Governance in an ecocivilization – an interview with Jeremy Lent
If we move away from neoliberalism (a system based on extraction and exploitation) towards an ecocivilization, what does this mean for governance & democracy?
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
As the current world order unravels, @jeremylent.bsky.social imagines an alternative: an “ecocivilization” grounded in proven design principles of ecosystems & our evolved inclination toward justice and mutuality. Interview with @dannixon.bsky.social, LSE Inequalities blog editor
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The principles of an ecocivilization – Interview with Jeremy Lent
The principles of an ecological civilization start from a recognition of the fact that, as humans, it's not just that we are alive; more deeply, we *are* life.
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Jeremy Lent @jeremylent.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Reweaving society’s fabric even as it unravels, defines the challenge facing all those who desire a better future. Difficult as this task is — and it may be the most difficult task our species has ever faced — it is the calling that our times demand. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyle...
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Reweaving Society’s Fabric: How Civilizational Transformation Might Happen
History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.
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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
(1/5) 🌍 The body as mediator Merleau-Ponty reminds us that we do not just “have” bodies. We are lived bodies — breathing, pulsing, perceiving. In an age of screens, this wisdom is more urgent than ever. 🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-p... @dannixon.bsky.social @aeon.co
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Dan Nixon @dannixon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Mark Zuckerberg wants us to “tune in” with smart glasses. But tune in to what, exactly? My latest piece for The Perpetual Beginner is on smart glasses and the lost art of seeing open.substack.com/pub/theperpe...
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Smart glasses and the slow death of seeing
Mark Zuckerberg wants us to “tune in” with smart glasses. But tune in to what, exactly?
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The post-war global economic order is finally on the verge of collapse, writes Francisco H. G. Ferreira ahead of the IMF/World Bank #SpringMeetings2025. Reform is finally on its way. The problem: the change that is coming is much for the worse… #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/i5CJxDi
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The World Bank and the New Global Economic Disorder
The global economic order is on the verge of a collapse wrought by an US administration that disregards human rights, democracy, science and the rule of law
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Dan Nixon @dannixon.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Honoured to be cited by Tej Parikh in the FT today on the attention economy: on the "mindless grasping impulse" of reaching for our phones, and how our mental lives are "more fragmented and scattered than ever before" in the tech era: on.ft.com/3Qpra2M
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The human mind is in a recession
[FREE TO READ] Technology strains our brain health, capacity and skills
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