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The Unbound Mind: Macro-Governance Architecture & Lebensphilosophie (with Arif Jameel)
Scholarly Collaboration Thanks to Arif for Design and Thinking
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The “Why Tech Makes Us Fear Forgetting” audio commentary and Comparative Analysis of Memory, Trauma, and Cultural Ideology in Unforgettable (2017), Unforgettable (US TV), and Unforgotten (UK TV):
The “Why Tech Makes Us Fear Forgetting” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This comparative essay examines how memory, forgetfulness, and “un-forgottenness” are conceptualized, dramatically operationalized, and culturally shaped across three distinct screen works: the 2017 American film Unforgettable, the American television series Unforgettable (2011–2016), and the British cold-case television series…
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Marketing Killed the Message: Reclaiming Relational Dignity in an Age of Transactional Utility
The “How Marketing Killed Genuine Human Communication” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critiques the systemic degradation of communicative discourse resulting from the triumph of modern marketing strategies and market fundamentalism. By prioritizing transactional exchange, market segmentation, and instrumental persuasion, marketing transforms human subjects into passive consumer-auditors, rendering society…
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Volunteers Economically Abused: Neoliberal Formalism, MICE Philosophy, and the Capacity for Comprehensive Understanding
The “How Companies Outsource Labour to You” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Featured Image:
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The Numbers Game Problem: Neoliberal Formalism, MICE Philosophy, and the Capacity for Comprehensive Understanding
The “Beyond the Economic Numbers Game” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Featured Image:
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Politicians, Other Political Players, why your messaging does not land with the general public
The “Why Political Messaging Fails” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The second audio commentary is the better conversation. 25 October 2026 Dear Nick, I know you are being political, but that is where your messaging does not land. In your case, your argument is that the “attack on Helen Hughes [sic]…
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The Road to Geelong: A Re-Narrativization of The Story of Resilience Part 1
Dr Neville Buch[1] Image: 2026-10-16 (01) Leaving Home, 3.00 a.m. Abstract This essay produces a scholarly re-narrativization of Dr. Neville Buch’s autoethnographic account, The Story of Resilience Part 1: The Story of Resilience in Traveling the Australian East Coast. The narrative chronicles a high-stakes, 2026 research voyage undertaken for the Management Institute for Contributory Economy…
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The Human Being Above the Transaction and Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay mounts a systematic defence of the priority of human beings, cultural life, and the knowledge commons against the marketized orthodoxies advanced in Bevin Luchel’s Fixed Mindsets, Fixed Incomes (2026a) and Real-World…
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A Critical Phenomenology and Epistemology of Open and Fixed Mindsets: Quantum Biology of the Open Mind
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Quantum Biology of the Open Mind” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship at: Abstract The widespread popularization of Carol Dweck’s dichotomy between “growth” (open) and “fixed” mindsets has profoundly shaped contemporary educational psychology, management pedagogy, and self-help literature (Awan n.d., p. 1; Dweck 2015 cited in…
