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Category: Value of Local History
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Compression and Application for Local Philosophy
Abstract This essay explores the interplay between the philosophical concept of compression and its application within the realm of local socio-intellectual history, specifically focusing on the Queensland context as documented by Dr. Neville Buch. Drawing on the media theory of Jonathan Sterne and the “Technics and Time” framework of Bernard Stiegler, the analysis distinguishes between “abstract…
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G.02 Local Landscapes Past. 2026-02-14 Lunch at Riverside Seafood Cafe 1:30 p.m. Valentines Day.
Here I am having lunch by myself. Alone. After Andrew Walker’s funeral and coffee with BUUF at Cafe 4072, Summer Park. I drove as round for an hour lost in Seventeen Miles Rocks, Centenary, Oxley, and Corinda. I was crazy in the feeling of loss. So, time for a celebration lunch at Riverside Seafood Cafe,…
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The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project
The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145517000/The_Spectrum_of_Thinking_in_The_Politics_of_Quora_Project The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Abstract: Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded…
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Coopers Plains and The Vices and Virtues of Humanity
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Take a local area, any local area, and you will find the entire spectrum of human experience compressed into the history of its soil and streets. In the case of Coopers Plains, Brisbane, the landscape serves as a laboratory for the vices and virtues of humanity, moving from the…
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Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities
Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
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Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality
“Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism,” Dr. Neville Buch” Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person can renew, for themselves, better unitarian universalism thinking. Each of us has a free mind but we are not free in our thinking…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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Romanticism and Charles Taylor
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, Harvard University Press. At a moment when, as Taylor has…
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BACK-UP. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ATTACK. Re: Education ? Placement poverty in Australia (Case Ref: LW62300)
Dear …everyone thinking in Australia, [This post reproduces an email to the Australian public persons. It was the second email sent. The system is attempting to destroy the capacity for the information technology as in email workhorses to handle large and critical thinking as substantial text; fightback to the dumbing-down of the commercial world ! swearword…