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...
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Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.
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...
New VCs and the State of Affairs at and in Australian Universities
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. ...
How Small is Australian Higher Education Sector for Domestics?
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: ...
To the new Queensland Minister for Education and the Arts
To the Minister for Education and the Arts, Queensland Dear Friends, (letter to Minister below) Why do you not understand? If you didn't? And if you did, why not say something significant about education? The Lesson: "I...
Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of...
Concepts, Terms, and Frames for the Leveling Playing Field
Here is a list of concepts, terms and definitions for the Level Playing Field. Level Playing Field The following graphs demonstrate a relationship between a selection of concepts, terms and definitions which may unravel...
ON MY OLD BOSS. Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn, The Monthly, November 2024
Jason Koutsoukis' In like Glyn in The Monthly, November 2024, provides an excellent insight into the person of Professor Glyn Davis and the better politics. I worked for Professor Glyn Davis in Office of Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne,...
I’m livin’ in the 70’s
Spiral Historiography. "I'm living in the Seventies". Skyhooks. The political topics and rhetoric has spiral back to the 1970s pattern. I'm livin' in the 70's Eatin' fake food under plastic trees My face gets dirty just...