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Category: Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History
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Universal/Big History: What propositional fits can be made between the concept of noosphere in De Chardin, Haught, Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee, Williams, and Habermas?
What propositional fits can be made between the concept of noosphere in De Chardin, Haught, Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee, Williams, and Habermas? Several points of contact can be made between the concept of the noosphere as presented by Teilhard de Chardin, Haught, and Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee,…
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How to re-build Queensland Universities and Other Critical Thought
The mega-universities in search of a ‘soul’ Mergers, ComUEs, “experimental public establishments”: France’s numerous university amalgamations have taken many forms and many names over the past decade or so, with the last model producing two of the country’s top-ranked institutions, Paris-Saclay University and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL). But with rumours of…
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Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”
Dear friend, I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully, “the professional historians are not listening”. Australian…
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Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond. 1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…
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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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The Lost Intellect of Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Employment Companies
On August 12, 2024, I produced a post, called, What you are seeing in the Image of Australian Employment. What I said is, it is time for accountability against the corrupt — intellectually if not by law, and that I had three images of emails sent to me by the Adzuna (A.I.) machine to prove…
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Dr Buch’s Historiography as Business
Dr Buch’s Historiography as Business. It is Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642. It is a Not-For-Profit business. Income is to sustain the business. What the general population does not understand is the cost to the professional historian. To take my best example: NDB Taxable Income Statement 2019-2021 and Jul-March 2020-2021 …
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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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What is really happening in the cognition of university managers after 30 years of neo-liberal policies? Inbox
The story sounds bizarre but what is really happening in the cognition of university managers after 30 years of neo-liberal policies? On Thursday 4th July, at the Australian Historical Association, at the session on “Histories of Teaching and Teachers,” I will be presenting the paper, Rethinking School: Historical Forgetfulness and Educationalist Theory 1971–89. On the same day I…
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The Craziness of UQ Political Decision Makers
Dear friends, Given my publications — both academic works and blog articles & essays over recent years, it is clear in the craziness of The UQ Senate in even thinking about removing postgraduate museum studies. The University of Queensland is proposing to phase out Museum Studies programs from 2025. Over 3,000 students, academics…