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The Architecture of Bureaucratic Humanism and Cognitive Corruption
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The “Problem One, Two, Three” identifies a fundamental breakdown in intelligent communication characterized by a recursive failure to recognize corruption—defined as an abuse in thinking—across three distinct scales: the Individual (One), the Cohort/Persons (Two), and the System (Three). This breakdown is rooted in Bureaucratic Humanism, a state where the movement’s intellectual core is hollowed out by a Techné Mindset that…
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Looking the Premier of Queensland in the Eye
Abstract This essay examines the fluctuating cognition and decision-making processes of the Queensland Government regarding the 2032 Olympic Summer Games (erroneously referred to in the query as 2023). By analysing the transitions between the Palaszczuk, Miles, and Crisafulli administrations, the analysis reveals a conflict between “managerialism” and the historical reality of the urban landscape. The record of stadium infrastructure proposals—from the…
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Landscape, Sovereignty and Migration, Continental Confusion: Media Misreporting and the History of Ceuta
Thinking: AbstractThis essay examines the systemic media misreporting of the 2021 and 2026 Ceuta incidents, arguing that international coverage fundamentally failed to acknowledge the geographical and historical complexities of the region. By mischaracterizing the North African enclave as part of the European mainland, media outlets ignored the unique status of Spain’s autonomous cities and the…
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Review of Dr Macklin’s Yeronga History. Bridging the Gap in Brisbane’s Local Historiography
This review evaluates Dr. Michael Macklin’s History of Yeronga by positioning it within a scholarship spectrum defined by two extremes: the “ambitious amateur” descriptive style of the 1930s (represented by Inigo Jones) and the rigorous, interdisciplinary professional standards of the 2026 Australian Historical Association (AHA) conference. Utilizing the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework,…
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Researcher Prejudice: The Friction Between Technical Reductionism and Lived Experience
Dr Neville Buch I participated in a “Driver Simulation VR, experiment in a university laboratory”. Afterwards, the experience included Merlo rewards coffee and pumpkin roll. I have no complaints about the coffee as it was free from the rewards card for the driver experiment but the pumpkin roll was flattened and overheated, much like the…
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Certificate of Participation ISCHE 47 and why Australian universities can’t understand their war on sociology, and what to do about it?
The perennial tension between intellectual detachment and social activism is often framed as a binary choice. However, the scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch and the broader intellectual history of the human sciences suggest that this is a false dichotomy. Drawing on the foundational axiom that ”understanding history is philosophy in practice,” this essay argues that…
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Series of Articles on Traveling through Life
Series Introduction: The Series of Articles on Traveling through Life (1–6) documents the intellectual and existential road trips of Dr. Neville Buch between 2022 and 2026. This series analyses the thematic triad of landscape, travel, and thought, framing physical transit as a “cathartic-therapeutic-life accounting experience”. The series is grounded in Dr. Buch’s foundational axiom that…
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Pillars of Human Authorship and Social Flourishing
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the synergistic relationship between sociology, faith, freedom, and thought as a necessary framework for human flourishing. Drawing on an expansive intellectual history—from the religious origins of capitalist behaviour to modern critiques of technocratic control—it argues that these four pillars are inseparable in the quest for Human Authorship. Sociology provides the lens…
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Unity of Purpose for the Political Centre: A Message to Drew Hutton
Neville Buch · Drew Hutton, I have said, so many times, in my publications, the issue is political rhetoric, political thinking in party rooms and media. It has become power games rather than the proper art of politics in negotiating out a fair and reasonable agreements. Writers and scholars like Libby and I, and many others, are…
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Teaching Documentation: Understanding History is Philosophy in Practice – ISCHE 47
Featured Image: CIAE Diploma of Teaching Graduates of late 1970s. Dave Jack and Denis Sheehan with Queensland historian, the late Dr Jack Ford, in the centre of the image.