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Ideas

Articles discussing ideas drawn from professional, academic, and cultural knowledge domains.

Detail from Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Composition X (1939).

Notes on Appiah’s Lévi-Strauss

4 April 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s New York Review of Books essay on Claude Lévi-Strauss confirm my old antipathies to his work, but also reveal some new façets to me.

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Remembering Google Plus: ‘ere, it’s bollocks, innit!

24 February 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Some humour from 2013, when I tangled with Google Plus zealots about the failed attempt to compete with Facebook.

Managing fear of change

22 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Managing fear and resistance to change requires insight and tact .

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The lens of insanity

19 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Demands for simple language and dumbed-down concepts must not become anti-intellectualism and ignorance of the Western canon.

A primer on liberal democracy

14 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Liberal democracy is not anything anyone wants it to mean. It has long and profound traditions.

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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

If we confuse simplified models and metaphors for reality in political and economic policy, we can create disaster for real people.

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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

The serif is a constant companion, a known quantity, a faithful servant of the words.

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How we trust ‘knowledge’

20 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

How we can and do validate knowledge seems highly relevant in the era of fake news, social media disinformation, and political hyper-partisanship.

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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Nietzsche’s ideas have become powerfully pervasive in our culture, mostly without explicit acknowledgement.

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Critical thinking toolbox in the era of Trumpist imbeciles

9 October 2019 Peter Strempel 0

There are some analytical tools anyone can use to debunk the disinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories of our era.

A short history of business process management

12 September 2016 Peter Strempel 0

Business process management (BPM) is still rooted in its original industrial engineering and manufacturing paradigms.

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Luminous realm of values

15 August 2015 Peter Strempel 0

What I might never have imagined about a luminous realm of values if a translation hadn’t led me there.

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Existentialism as philosophy of action

24 June 2012 Peter Strempel 0

Existentialism offers a valuable tool for critical analysis well-suited to engage with liberal ideals of egalitarianism and individual liberty.

Features

Jane Austen Festival

Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

12 December 2021 0
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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0
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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0
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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0
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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 0

Topics

ABC Alan Ladd Alan Tudge Alec Guiness Al Pacino Barnaby Joyce China Christian Porter Claude Lévi-Strauss corruption David Cornwell Democrats Donald Trump Edward Norton Facebook film noir Four Corners George Christensen George Smiley hardboiled Henry Kissinger Humphrey Bogart Ian Richardson ideology James Ellroy Jean Paul Sartre Joe Biden John Le Carre Ken Burns Louis Althusser Lynn Novick Martin Heidegger Neil Sheehan News Corp Peter Dutton Robert McNamara Robodebt Roland Barthes Rupert Murdoch Scott Morrison Scotty from marketing Sigmund Freud Simon Birmingham Thomas Frank Viet Thanh Nguyen

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