Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
-
Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber of the techne. We are doing the…
-
The American Modernism of The Great Gatsby: Concepts of Landscape, Persons, and Time-Past
Synopsis: A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby (read copy, Penguin Books 1950, 2008 edition). The book was published in 1926, from notes of 1922 and as set in New York’s Long Island and Manhattan Island in 1922. The landscape of the narrative, is considered, in the first section of the review, with…
-
Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It
Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are discussed without political distraction: Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) Australia and Aotearoa…
-
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French revolution and its aftermath, and as selectively applied the thinking in the framework of…
-
Antiquarianism, Intellectual Confusion, and the Worship of Unintelligent Fiction
Let me be straight up, so as not to be confused on my clear and intelligent point. I do not expect fiction to be any closer to accuracy than what it is, fiction. It is rather an issue of the antiquarian, and what that truly means. Antiquarianism, according to the Wikipedia article should be seen…
-
Concept, Semantics, and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use his cartoons. In this blog piece are three cartoons to get to the point of needing a…
-
Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…
-
My Message in the End of the 2023 Commemoration Season From 2022 for 2024, and the year after…
Dear friends, This is my message at the end of the 2023 commemoration season for Queensland and Brisbane, and speaks for work of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc., in 2024, 2025, and so forth. In 2022 the Forum had an important discussion on how we can “Break the Cycle” of…
-
The Semantics of Work: Reference and Meaning
A response to Justine Toh’s, “Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil?” The Guardian, Monday 20 November 2023, online. I find these days with journalism, the semantics is so much more unclear, such that one reads an enjoyable piece, about…
-
How to provide the Educative Message?
Dear friends, Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below. The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the Brisbane City Council. Here we have community intellectuals in Los Angeles, bringing down heavily the sociological…