After the failure to find a publisher to support the publication of “the Intellectual (Hidden) History of Queensland”. I am moving onto a new major book project, coordinated with the other informally contracted book project: 1) on Humanism; 2) on...
"thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." Rudolf Steiner (1883), Goethean Science, GA1. The Goethe-Steiner multi-layered...
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken...
NDB. Levelling the Playing Field (edited 15 Sept 24) The seminar, co-convened by Sharon Aris of the TASA Sociology of Education Special Interest Group, commenced with a warm welcome to participants and an introduction to the theme centered...
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, "I apologise as Public Service...
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, "Why Scholars Should Stop Studying 'Misinformation'." Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was 'click bait', and for...
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology...
Featured Image: Paid. Invoice #: 00235-2024. 240909.highres.aitool In 1966, Abraham Maslow, originator of the Hierarchy of Needs, made this well-known observation: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything...