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MICE and the Global Architecture of Holistic Scholarship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE), under the leadership of Dr. Neville Buch, represents a frontier in global holistic scholarship, bridging the gap between local historiography and universal philosophical inquiry. An analysis of the “MICE Academia.Edu Reports 5-02 to 31-05 2026” demonstrates an extraordinary level of intellectual resonance, with individual…
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Not Knowing and Knowing: Beyond the Orthodoxy of Coercion – The Ecology of Knowledge
Dr Neville Buch Not Knowing and Knowing Abstract. Perennially in the global intellectual history is the Orthodoxy of Coercion, where both the individual and the collective have had to deal with the “power-over”: command, coercion, and domination. In the last few centuries, it has been existentialism, and in detail: existential thought, which has been the…
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Big Belief and Big Doubt. Navigating the Altar of Autocomplete
Abstract In the complex landscape of 2026, the concepts of “Big Belief” and “Big Doubt” emerge as the critical navigational anchors for the human mind. “Big Belief” refers to an “interpretive priority” where a comprehensive worldview—be it religious or naturalistic—orients a person’s engagement with every object and event in reality. Conversely, “Big Doubt” represents the…
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An Australian Political Analysis. Queensland and Michael Macklin
Management Institute for Contributory Economy This essay examines the trajectory of Australian politics with a specific focus on the unique socio-intellectual landscape of Queensland and the pivotal role played by Dr. Michael Macklin. Utilizing his dual career as a philosopher of education and a Senator for the Australian Democrats (1981–1990), the analysis explores how Macklin’s…
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The Cognitive Pedagogy of Choice and Living Freedom
Dr Neville Buch Abstract In the contemporary landscape of 2026, the dynamic of cognition for living freedom of belief is increasingly caught between the growing formalization of algorithmic education and the radical necessity for a pedagogy of choice. This essay explores how standardized machine-based routines risk modifying consciousness into “passive, dependent, filled” patterns, contrasting…
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What is Sociology of Education?
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay defines the Sociology of Education today as a critical interdisciplinary field focused on the remediation of “denoetization”—the mechanical liquidation of the human capacity for judgment. Drawing on the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) and Spiral Historiography frameworks, it argues that education is no longer merely the transmission of content…
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The Architecture of Ethical Community and Cognitive Flourishing
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the architecture of a healthy community through the lens of relational ethics and cognitive discernment. Drawing on the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework and The Community Builder’s Journal, it argues that communal health is not a static state but a dynamic process of caring correctly, recognizing…
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Rightwing Empty Rhetoric. Defending Synthetic Historiography Against the Rhetoric of Forensic Dismissal
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines Sophia L. Corwin’s critique, “The Altar of Autocomplete and Buch’s Synthetic Historiography,” identifying it as a form of ultra-conservative academic rhetoric designed to gatekeep the boundaries of the traditional academy. Corwin’s analysis is characterized by a “combat concept” approach that utilizes forensic dismissal to delegitimize “synthetic” modes…
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Global Themes that Australian Studies-in-Religion scholars are missing
10 May 2026 Dr Neville Buch Necessity and Choice. The Architecture of Necessity and Human Authorship Abstract This essay explores the dialectic between necessity and choice within the frameworks of semantic theory, sociology of education, and religious studies. It posits that while neoliberal models of “rational choice” attempt to reduce human behaviour to the mechanical…
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The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop
PDF FILE: The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop https://www.academia.edu/166781431/The_Cognitive_Organic_Mechanics_of_Outlander_s_Historical_Workshop The Outlander Workshop: Cognitive Landscapes of the 18th Century I. Contractarianism and the Strategic Social Deal In Outlander, the social structures of 1743 Scotland are characterized by a Hobbesian Contractarianism. This political theory posits that legitimate authority…