Abstract: Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory, examining The Meet-Up World. ***** ART INSTALLATION: PANEL DESCRIPTION It is a long story. An occasion for a face-to-face chat, where human beings can touch. Neville socially on a Sunday...
Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
Critical Theory, Puritan-ART World, and Progressivism
I have been talking about critical theory in among many of my blog articles and posts, and I am concerned that concept needs to untangled truth from the criticisms of the Puritan world and John Bunyan’s idea of progressivism. Here is a section of...
Re: What is happening in Higher Education Policy? An answer from the federal department
Dear Friends, I had made inquiries on the particular higher education policy reforms which were occurring, from the position of the federal government. I sent my enquiry off, back in October, to the PMO and it was redirected straight away to the department. I had no...
Why I am not a Rationalist, but a Humanist…A Research Note
"The great obstacle that reason (Vernunft) puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect (Verstand) and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge...
The Effort for Queensland Public Service Workforce Statistics, and Who Pays for Knowledge?
A colleague of mine (and a "colleague of mind") wanted to help us -- the South East Queensland Community -- with a project in urban sociology. He wrote to the Queensland Public Service Commission (QPSC), regarding workforce profiles for the Queensland Public Service...
Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections
WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO LET POLITICIANS AND COUNCILLORS LEAD US DOWN THE PATHWAY OF FAILED POLICY? Brisbane City Council Policy (BCC): Bus over Rail. Queensland Government Policy: Private Financial Interest over Public. It is interesting to think about the...
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...
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...
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...