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Ideas

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

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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

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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
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The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 0
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Underworld USA: America unimagined

24 December 2015 0
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The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

7 July 2014 0
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Existentialism as philosophy of action

24 June 2012 0

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ABC Abraham Maslow ACSF Alan Tudge Albo Alec Guiness Al Pacino Angus Taylor Anthony Hopkins AQF Brittany Higgins Bryan Fuller Carl Jung Change management China Christian Porter Christopher Hitchens Claude Lévi-Strauss Clover Moore corruption corruption commission David Cornwell David Elrod Dennis Farina Donald Tippet Donald Trump Edward Norton Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Existentialism and Humanism Facebook Ferdinand de Saussure George Christensen George Smiley Hans Vaihinger Henry Kissinger Herbert Marcuse HUAC Humphrey Bogart Ian Richardson ideology Immanuel Kant incompetence Jack Crawford Jacques Derrida Jame Gumb James Ellroy Jaqcues Lacan Jean Paul Sartre Joanthan Demme Joe Biden John Huston John Le Carre Journalling Jürgen Habermas Karl Marx Ken Burns Lauren Bacall Liam Neeson Literacy Louis Althusser Lynn Novick Martin Heidegger Michel Foucault Neil Sheehan Neo-fascism News Corp News Corporation Penny Wong Peter Dutton Project management Reading Ridley Scott Robert McNamara Robodebt Roland Barthes Rupert Murdoch Scott Glenn Scott Morrison Scotty from marketing Sigmund Freud Thomas Hobbes trade war Twitter Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing

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