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It is What I Have Been Saying: Tillich
Paul Tillich, in 1944, spoke to the history of Existential Thought (attached below). Incredibly, it is exactly what I have stated in the one paragraph below. It is what I have been saying for the last two years, for those who I have sought attention from, and I have been treated like shit with their…
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The American-Australian Center-Centre
The American-Australian Center-Centre was unfolded to me in article by Richard Lee Abrams, who asked recently in the City of Los Angeles, “Who Murdered the American Political Center?” There is a difference between the American Center and the Australian Centre, and it is not merely the difference of English spelling. There…
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THE’s Post-92 contract ‘at risk’ in wave of university cost-cutting: And in Australia and locally?
I read this article in The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), and I was left mystified as to the silence of our decision-makers, as the same scenario rolled out in Australia, and locally, since 1992. Let’s check and read the statements of the article. The Australian context in most ways mirror that in the United…
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Corruption in The College. When will Vice-Chancellors Make a Bold Stand?
A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing: Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has increasingly become a bubble pre-occupied with tenure & commercial potential as a consequence of corporately funded…
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Public Transport System of Brisbane: A Conversation with the folk of South-East Queensland
Following Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections, I have had a few conversations and enlightening feedback. One conversation was with a colleague and friend who described the Brisbane City Council (BCC)’s bus over rail policy in the observation that the state government is responsible for…
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Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber of the techne. We are doing the…
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Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…
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BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025
The Letter From Councillor Vicki Howard, Civic Cabinet Chair for Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy, Councillor for Central Ward, to Mr Cole and Dr Buch, 19 December 2023: CAN CO09719-2023 FINAL ****** Reply… 26 December 2023 Hi Simon (Simon Cole, President of the Coopers Plains History Group Inc.), I think,…
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Being Alone and Urban Space: 4 Conferences, 2 Weeks, 2 Cities
I am alone, not like this blank page to which I start to write. We are thrown into a world (Heidegger). I woke up slowly this morning. I slept in. Each morning since 17 December 2016, I awake with a sense of disorientation, and in loss and grief. I am alone.…
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How to provide the Educative Message?
Dear friends, Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below. The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the Brisbane City Council. Here we have community intellectuals in Los Angeles, bringing down heavily the sociological…