Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson...
A fool is one who ignores the evidence -- puts their heads in the sand -- and whispers disparaging remarks about "ordinary" persons working social media. On just economic and demographic reasons, why persons in government and...
Update Preface. Dr Michael Macklin is a former Dean at the University of New England: the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science from 2002 to 2007, and Macklin also represented the University as the Director, UNE...
A brilliant comment (below) from a dear friend and an artist on the State of Affairs at and in Australian Universities. Full marks for the accuracy and intelligence in speaking to the stupidity of Australian politicians and the conformist VCs. ...
Dear friends, Do you really care? As a society of friends, if you really care I would have a paid job; anything in scholarship which breaks through the attempted-falsely-legitimising bullshitting... (capi de meta, meta capi and mea culpa: there...
Dear friends, Please read carefully, and act accordingly, with diligence and kindness. The future is always uncertain. But today it is possibly more unpredictable than ever. For the Iai's World Philosophy Day 2024, we asked leading thinkers how philosophy can help us...
Dear Neil and Michael, In line with the problem of the false economy and the failures of humanities and social science education in Australia. Here is the Free Thinker Institute, New York, meeting today. Garrett Lang introduced the Freethinker Institute...
The average person would be shock when they learn how small the Australian Higher Education Sector is for citizens and residents of Australia, taking the international market out of the equation. Here is the data: ...
From a voice on Quora: In defense of Americans, if they want to see mountains, they have mountains. If they want to see a lake, or the ocean, or the desert, or a tropical island, or even the arctic? They have all of it. All without having...