Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Blog

  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism

    Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism

            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 in his book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, published in…

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  • Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.

    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 Partnerships Ltd. He had previously worked as an Adjunct Professor, Centre for…

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  • New VCs and the State of Affairs at and in Australian Universities

    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.             New generation of educationalist vice-chancellors urges change. As more…

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  • How Small is Australian Higher Education Sector for Domestics?

    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:   HigherEducationStatisticsExportData.xls     The main conclusions, working the smallest section of the population interest in being education:…

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  • To the new Queensland Minister for Education and the Arts

    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 am glad you’re in the class, I am glad you are learning, a…

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  • Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites

    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 meritocracy.     What do you think?     https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share     Thoughts?  A wealthy school could afford…

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  • Concepts, Terms, and Frames for the Leveling Playing Field

    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 confusion.         Concepts are using a Primary Term to organise other terms…

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  • ON MY OLD BOSS. Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn, The Monthly, November 2024

    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, during the planning and implementation of the Melbourne Model. Professor Davis is a brilliant…

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  • I’m livin’ in the 70’s

    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 a-walkin’ around I need another pill to calm me down      …

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