Twenty-six of Henry’s books are currently available on Lulu (https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/henrywilloughby):
An Introduction to Social Justice & Ecologies of Knowledge Philosophy is a ‘post-modern’ philosophy of social justice and a basis for renewed political organising. It is a philosophical and political science treatise designed to reconcile social justice meta-knowledge, in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, to aid and guide the practices, praxis, and policy of social justice political parties and to assist activists in ideological understandings. It is a consciousness-raising book, written in the revolutionary style of knowledge relay and presentation – Post-Modern Meta-Philosophy. It represents knowledge pertinent to social justice in ‘ecologies’ in the vein of and as an extension to Gregory Bateson’s formulation of mind as an ecology. It is an invigorating renewed basis for informed and passionate political organising for the 21st Century! Enjoy! Readers will get a lot out of this book, no matter what your original political persuasion! Fields of knowledge interwoven into the book’s syntheses consist of nutrition, evolutionary psychology and medicine, cosmology, social science, philosophy, ethology, evolution, futures studies, and political science! It can be found on Lulu at:
The Spatial Politics of Adelaide examines the town planning and the mental constructs of town planners of five spatial grids of the Adelaide CBD, and the class, gender, and identity of socio-political manifestations in the spatial realm, in a journey from the West End to the East End of the CBD from Hindley Street to Rundle Street through Rundle Mall. The five spatial grids of analysis demarcated by the grid-like road layout in Adelaidian streets, moving from west to east, are investigated with social and political science commentary on the reproduction of different kinds of socially contested space(s). It finds that the grids in the west mirror the more working-class demographics of Adelaide’s western suburbs and that the grids in the east mirror the more middle-class demographics of Adelaide’s eastern suburbs. Both the working-class and the middle-class disrupt, resist or re-appropriate the homogenising spatial forces of big business capitalism and transnational commoditisation. In contrast, the centre space in Rundle Mall is more an abstract space of consumption, symbolically dominated by big business, but still with sites of resistance to ‘globalist’ transnational commoditisation. This book gives you the conceptual tools to deconstruct the spatial politics of your own town, village or city, wherever you may live! You can find the book on Lulu at:
The Archetype of Psychotropic Shamanism and the Morality of Group Bonding and/or Healing firstly warns of the dangers of shamanist psychotropic consumption to mental health especially for those with a genetic predisposition to psychosis as a foregrounding to sketching an archetype (‘original model’) of psychotropic shamanism. It argues that the archetype consists of unique ritualized components found in more traditional forms of shamanism which serve the function of group bonding and/or psycho-somatic social healing. It examines case-studies on more traditional forms of shamanism, finding common themes of group bonding and healing. It investigates the enduring power and influence this archetype has on neo-shamanist practices exploring case-studies on contemporary marijuana consumption in the U.S. It finds that group bonding and egalitarianism in such neo-shamanist practices is a commonality with the archetype. Further to the archetype, the book explores the underlying cultural ‘epistemes’ (‘ways of knowing’) that legitimize and underpin ancient and more traditional forms of shamanism being (social) psychointegration, polyphasia, and enchantment, all within a more egalitarian social milieu and setting. It can be found on Lulu at:
An Anthropology of Globalization contextualizes globalization from the evolutionary seat of the species in Africa, through to migration effectively colonizing the entire planet’s habitable land, to empire and capitalism as driving more intensification of global interconnectivity. It concludes with some stratagems of freedom and liberty to counteract hyper-market liberalisation, neoliberal and excessively homogenizing forms of globalization. It’s available on Lulu at the link below:
A concise methodological book on philosophy called Post-Modern Meta-Philosophy sets out a new technique for profound information relay and new, diverse and effective spatial presentations of knowledge, and can be found at Lulu at:
Philosophical Constructions of a Rational Culture gives innovations to the way we discursively think about topics such as God, religion, teleology, power and human motivation, as well as innovations to social structures, institutions and cultural mores, with the aim of expediting ‘the rational’ in culture. You can find it on Lulu at the link below:
An Ecology of Indispensable Knowledge-Bytes is a self-improvement, social philosophical text aimed to give the reader well-crafted mind technologies and tools to improve morality and ethics, sociality and political insights. You can find it on Lulu at the link below:
Native Title, Indigenous Self-Determination & Rational Cultural Synthesis in the Australian Context is a short book which canvases the history of the native title legal framework in Australia. It then critically assesses the efficacy of this framework as a mechanism for social justice and as a method to meet the socially pressing issue of eliciting and creating the conditions for full social and economic self-determination for First Nations People of Australia. It acknowledges just what native title cannot do in meeting this goal, so the book calls for a rational cultural synthesis between the ancient Indigenous culture(s), and the liberal capitalist regime/culture in authentic and rational negotiation between the cultures in light of their respective and differing virtues in meeting human need and the needs of the natural world. Indeed, the many progressive social and economic practices of Aboriginal peoples were overlooked, and still are, by ‘opportunistic’ colonizers who othered the Indigenous population(s), subordinated them, and refused to learn their immensely wise ways of living. Rational cultural synthesis is about truly humanizing the Indigenous’ wisdom and ameliorating institutional and social features of the neo-colonial capitalist culture. You can find it on Lulu at:
The Teleological Target and Labour Law: Domestic and Global explores the equity of individual and collective rights of employees and enterprise bargaining legislative frameworks between employees and employers in Australia with reference to dominant global neoliberal ideology, develops a teleological target for labour law, and gives a critique of the employee-employer distinction in the workplace:
A Post-Modern Social Justice Treatise: Meta-Knowledges in Post-Modern Meta-Philosophy gives social justice acumen presented in a post-modern philosophical style of information relay. You can find it on Lulu at:
Effects of Global Processes on Local Cultures: Trinidad, Papua New Guinea & Coca-Cola presents deconstructive information on the homogenizing, yet locally resilient and appropriated, effects of the corporate transnational meta-commodity Coca-Cola in Trinidad and Papua New Guinea. It gives a critique of capitalism as fueling irrationality through marketing strategy – a corporate homogenizing, saturation and colonization of space – capitalising on and fuelled by consumer vulnerability to corporate irrationality and production as abstracted from efficiently meeting human need. It concludes with a three-pronged model of ‘the rational’ in culture. You can find it on Lulu at:
Women: God’s Gift to Man-kind. Subjectivist Knowledge for Pro-Feminist Men is designed to help create strong and compassionate men who identity as pro-feminists in supporting women in struggles to obtain gender equity, and encourages men to adopt pro-feminist political views. It is designed to enhance the gender negotiation dialectic between women and men, through edifying the gendered consciousness of pro-feminist men to tackle men’s issues and ameliorate and redress relations with women. It encourages men to assist with women’s issues, and acknowledges the interwoven nature of issues and struggles between women and men. It is designed to enhance male morality in relations with women. Amongst many important knowledges for pro-feminist men, it covers ancient dimorphic gendered reproductive strategies of primate ancestors and debunks the corollary narrow sociobiological view of these ancient gendered behaviours as immutable in humans, and eschews biological essentialism. It calls for the further equalising of gender roles and courting rituals. It explores the virtues of monogamous intimate relationships, the contradictions of voluntary celibacy, and much more! If you believe in feminism and your own power to change the gendered world for the better, this book will both simultaneously improve relations with women through mind technologies to treat women more equitably as well as for men to treat themselves more kindly. Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
Violence is a short book on the need to continually mitigate violence and to channel violent tendencies into less socially destructive forms. A non-anthropocentric definition of society is adopted, to include the interactions between all sentient creatures. Upon this definitional amendment of ‘society’ violence becomes better theorized. The question of sentience, and in particular – the capacity to suffer, is developed through critically evaluating scientific literature thereon. It is only through harming living sentient creatures that violence operates: harm is a condition of violence. The book explores hierarchy and primate aggression, as well as giving an analysis of dominant modern institutions built around markets or central planning in terms of their respective violent capacities, realities and real world outcomes. Five different categories of violence are given, wherein ritualized and virtualized violence are shown to be less aberrant and harmful. The book concludes with a call for better macro-political economic systems to replace the violent begetting hierarchies of central planning and markets – aspects of which could remain but mainly outmoded through decentralized planning and small-scale more locally based markets. This is a novel book with a matured and intricate conception and understanding of violence in today’s world. You can find it on Lulu at:
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Essential Technologies of Mind gives sociological acumen and critical social commentary on a vast array of relevant and pressing topics. It is written in the revolutionary style of philosophy called Post-Modern Meta-Philosophy (‘PMMP’). Its prime target audience is social justice activists and social justice political organisers – whether they be for grass-roots organisations or political parties. It discloses important and nuanced understandings integral to formulating and streamlining ethics to inform better personal praxis and policy dictates. This is highly pertinent and original writing and synthesis. It’ll help unplug you from The Matrix! Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
Philosophic Meditations is a medium length treatise disclosing cutting edge social justice knowledge, along with ‘mind clarity’ syntheses on the ways we think about nature and evolution. It refines knowledge on socially held and manifested delusion, gender formulations to better equalize gender roles but allowing for equitable difference, and gives moral, social, and political technologies of mind. It clarifies knowledge on the nature of consciousness and how our bodies contain and enclose cosmological ancestral individuals. This book will give the reader a purview of highly relevant syntheses and understandings for interpersonal and social progress and prowess! Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
The International Labour Organization & The Question of Authenticity is a book on The International Labour Organization’s (‘ILO’) three – a triad of – ambitious stipulated and ‘ratified’ goals for work across the globe. These are full employment, decent work, and gender equality. The author explores the ILO’s authenticity in relation to these enunciated goals. To sustain authenticity, a number of nuanced philosophical and legal formulations are provided to steer the organization towards more effective and authentic discharge of its duties to truly steer the course of this triad and supervise global labour and the world of work. These formulations are provided as amendments to the ILO’s documents and overarching philosophy. This will help assist in enhancing this prestigious global organization’s authenticity, making it a more effective vehicle of social justice in the 21st century! You can find it on Lulu at:
A new book called Legitimizing the War on Terror: Capitalist Myth Making in the Exploitation of the Present as a Scarce Resource is available for purchase. Myth implies a fabrication of and reduction in truth. The present and the past is a scarce resource in that it relies on the ascendency of narratives (or myth(s)) which exclude other claims including counter-claims. The legitimization of War on Terror in Afghanistan (2001) and in Iraq (2003) were sustained by certain myths, herein investigated as to what interest blocs they narrowly served: one a more nationalistic reaction to the tragic 9/11 terrorist violence at the centre(s) of ‘Virtual Capitalism’, and the other a pre-emptive strike on a nation, framed as a part of a crusade, with lucrative contracts given to multi-nationals with their headquarters in the U.S. The latter was sustained by a number of myths that served, arguably, neo-imperial ends. The wars have been tragic with an unpalpable human cost. A more strategic way to combat terrorism is proffered: heightening national security, whilst transitioning to a more inclusive global social order to address the underlying causes of extremism and ‘jihadist’ cultural delusion.
An Invitation to Human Emergence Philosophy is a primer on social justice and pertinent ‘mind technologies’. Human Emergence Philosophy is an author organization created by Henry Willoughby (LLB/BA BA Hons) to create works containing cutting edge social justice and progressive ‘mind technologies’ specifically for social justice activists and social justice political party organizers, as well as for tertiary students and professors in philosophy, the humanities, politics and social sciences. This primer sets out some key meta-knowledges designed to introduce the target market – the people listed above, to Human Emergence Philosophy. Through greater interconnectivity, the potentials and exigency for humans to further ’emerge’ in humane meta-evolution is both pressing and imperative – socially, economically and politically. Enjoy!
The Rise of the ADHD Diagnosis is a short book examining the ADHD medicalization from a sociological perspective. It examines its genealogical rise in a social milieu which increasingly prioritizes the need for more sedentary cognition over increasingly longer periods of time. Its rise is a psychiatric ‘symptom’ of a further moralization of the ‘rationalization’ process identified by Weber. From this perspective, given a critical look at the rationality of increasing sedentary cognition, the diagnosis looks humane and progressive. However, over-diagnosis is a potential downfall given the nature of obedient labour and over-work demanded in the global capitalist economy, which may skew the reasoned prevalence in schoolchildren and adults alike. In other words, over-diagnosis may accompany capitalist sociocentrism. However, expediency may legitimize this high prevalence in diagnosis if treatment is beneficial in pharmacological adjusting of people to capitalist sociocentric norms. You can find it on Lulu at:
The Merits & Excesses of Bentham’s Critique of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England is a short book giving a critical purview of Bentham’s strictures on Blackstone’s work. In his work A Fragment of Government (‘Fragment’) Bentham sought to undermine the authority of Blackstone, by critiquing Blackstone’s work of The Commentaries of the Laws of England (‘The Commentaries’). Bentham vehemently opposes Blackstone’s mere recounting of the ‘law as it is’. Bentham launches an attack on Blackstone’s work from a moral utilitarian standpoint. Bentham claims that legal scholarship should not be confined to mere ‘epositor’ but rather also mandates the need for ‘censure’. This book analyses such a polemic on Blackstone from a political and psychological perspective, giving a level-headed perspective free from the hyperbole of Bentham (his excesses), but acknowledging the merit of Bentham’s worthy attempt of making a science of utilitarian legal scholarship. This is a good read to grasp, critically, Bentham’s argumentation, as well as giving prescription on the need to further and frame legal scholarship as a cooperative team sport – with no opposition! You can find it on Lulu at:
Addressing the Health Crisis in Masculinity. Critically Assessing the Charge of ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’ is a short book on the ill-health effects of hegemonic masculinity on men, as well as containing a critical assessment of the expansive gender theory of hegemonic masculinity – an examination of the utility and nuance in theoretical explanatory power. Ensuing redeployment of hegemonic masculinity conceptually as an exclusive intra-masculine phenomenon/phenomena is anchorage for further masculinist pro-feminist gender studies. This normative gender socialisation solicits skewed heightened morbidity and mortality rates on men, vis-à-vis women. The book explores, through the lens of overt and covert sex-class dimorphic power accruals, relevant biological difference, evolutionary gender roles, and sex-specific reproductive strategy. It shows how men are self-sacrificing their health in the pursuit of an illusory gender privilege, with the culprit being an intra-masculine ‘hegemonic masculinity’ which stems from the male dominant transnational capitalist class’ socializing power as the dominant ruling class of the globe. It pinpoints this ruthlessly competitive socialization as a hegemony which this class instills in its ruled subjects, particularly with regard to masculinities here. Whilst many resistant masculinities are formed, the collective behaviours of men are still framed as hegemonic, as a sex-class, which is in dire need of unpacking, along with a re-socialization of men, in the direction of better gender equity. Enriching the extant gender theorising is the positioning of intersectionalities and interconnections of political science and evolutionary psychology understandings relevantly applied thereto. It concludes with articulating the need for men to do more emotional labour, applying prowess in intellectualism to augmenting better emotional intelligence in confrontation of risk-taking, choice-making, and adoption of humane, and cooperative beliefs. You can find it on Lulu at:
The Evils of Casualised Labour in Australia is a short and concise book on the politico-economic practice of casual work in Australia. As labour-market policy it is flagged as socially regressive and in the narrow ‘flexist’ interests of employers, exploiting casual workers, and elicits a downward pressurizing of negotiating powers of workers in terms of pay, entitlements, and conditions. Young people and women particularly are vulnerable to this exploitation, being overrepresented as employees employed on a casual basis. The rise of casualisation as labour-market policy is inseparable from the rise of the neoliberal approach to governance, serving the narrow interests of business over that of labour. This book presents arguments on the need to transcend casualised labour and contracts in favour of better collective bargaining powers on the national and international levels. You can find it on Lulu at:
The Need for More Equity in Australia’s Political Institutions is a short book on the pressing issue of representative and social justice in the design of Australia’s political institutions. It positions itself with and adopts innovations in ‘the radical perspective’ when looking at oppression of social groups by other groups of people. It examines ‘ruling class’ legitimacy as further foregrounding to an alaysis of the virtues and vices of Australia’s ‘two-party system’. It makes an appraisal of mandatory voting in Australia, and then moves to vouching for quota systems to be put in place to ensure proportionate political representation of Indigenous people and for women. It speaks to implementing more direct democratic and representation in the design of political institutions, including on the need for the establishment of legally binding contract for campaign promises to the electorate. Australia could, in adopting these political mandates, do much, much better in furthering the interests of all people! Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
The Übermensch Aphorisms is a short book with some highly pertinent aphorisms as inspired by Nietzsche’s aphoristic style and in genuine service of his concept of the Übermensch (translated as the ‘over-person’). Its aphorisms are presented in an artistic way utilizing interesting fonts and colours in the vein of Post-Modern Meta-Philosophy (‘PMMP’) as designed and pioneered by Henry. This book, despite being short, contains immense wisdom, much of it gleaned and further synthesised from university studies and private tutoring. You can find it on Lulu at:
The Artefacts is a short book comprising twenty pertinent aphorisms. These aphorisms constitute written cultural artefacts, as well as combining both facts and art together for an engaging style of informational relay, and communication of philosophical synthesis. Fulfilling a categorical niche in self-improvement philosophy, this collection of aphorisms helps to live well, greatly empowering and sharpening the mind! Live better with these twenty concise mind technologies! Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
Distillations constitutes carefully crafted synthesis – distilled information on space and time from a hard-science to social science perspective. It also comprises pertinent, sophisticated and advanced philosophy, social and political science acumen on myriad topics such as autogestion, discourses on freedom, metaphysical libertarianism, neo-utilitarianism, the transvaluation of values, master philosophy, and the fact/value dichotomy. It is a concise book with valued and varied insights and synthesis – carefully refined meta-knowledges. Enjoy! You can find it on Lulu at:
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