2016-future Public Cognition 36

The Quacking of Donald Duck

Political rhetoric was the deliberative use of language to persuade an audience about civic affairs, encompassing motives, arguments, and sentiments to form attitudes and influence judgments; but today in the loss of all fairness, as mere devices, for good, bad, evil ends, it involves various techniques, such as metaphors, storytelling, and emotional appeals, aiming to…
Read more…
Political Anthropology as Method (Arpad Szakolczai and Australian thinkers)

“Political Anthropology is a way of doing academic/scholarly/research work in order to understand political reality…Humans can never transcend such a participatory perspective.” Barry Cooper, Professor of Politics, University of Calgary, Canada. Political Anthropology as Method Front Matter There is hope if we engage the socio-political anthropological thinking: Environmental Hope.…
Read more…
Define and Explain Personalism

By Dr Neville Buch with A.I. assistance Define and Explain Personalism Jan Olof Bengtsson writes in The Worldview of Personalism: Origins and Early Development (2006:283): Deeply involved in the complexities of a crossover period, when the influence of traditional culture was not yet eclipsed by radical modernism, idealistic personalism evinces many…
Read more…
The Best Assessment on Higher Education, Globally Perceived (to date)

Ellie Bothwell, rankings editor, has given the best assessment on Higher Education, globally perceived, at least in the historical moment we have. From Ellie Bothwell, This week in higher education, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), daily email, 28 August 2025: It is a troubling sign of the times, and the crisis…
Read more…
George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance; Against What is Wrong

George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance, taking a stand against what is wrong. From The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 August 2025: GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’ by Katherine Mangan and Jasper Smith. In a 10-page letter,…
Read more…
Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.

Andrew James Brown provides Open Education and an introduction to Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”. I recommend listen to the YouTube video. Or read the transcription of Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro [今岡信一良] (1881-1988). School Education and Religion (2) [1956] Shōwa 31 [1956] in…
Read more…
Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities

Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
Read more…
Digital Modernities: A.I. and the Human

Digital Modernities. A.I. and the Human Drawing upon the provided sources, the concept of compassion and the nature of an “absurd and impoverished situation” are deeply rooted in human experience, which differs fundamentally from the operational nature of an A.I. Here’s an analysis based on the sources: • The Nature of AI…
Read more…
Thinking about “The A.I. Generated Four-Eyed (Hands) Perception Human”

Create an image called, “The A.I. Generated Four-Eyed (Hands) Perception Human”; that the human mind can have six eyes to give holism of perception. Bifocal human eyes (2); The left-right hand (2) of cognition; directions of socio-political thought; The arm movement of lifting up or pushing down (2) in the cognition form (practical…
Read more…
Corruption in the Employment Industry. Why did you not want to talk with me?

Corruption in the Employment Industry. Why did you, selected decision-maker, not want to talk with me?
Read more…

Category: 2016-future Public Cognition