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...
Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology
By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA Third Paper, Exploratory, Version for 2023 Sydney TASA Conference Slide 1. Introduction In preparing the publication and presentation papers for the Sydney TASA Conference, at the end of November 2023, this is a third paper,...
Misunderstanding interdisciplinary studies and research
Dear friends, It seems that university academics have existed for too long in the ivory tower, that they do not understand the dynamics of interdisciplinary studies and research. Take, for example, the Monash Study where "50 Monash executives and...