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Today’s Academic Patterns. The Academic Immense Regression – Denoetization and the Crisis of Scholarship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the contemporary landscape of higher education through the lens of the “Academic Immense Regression,” a systemic collapse characterized by the mechanical liquidation of judgment (denoetization) and the erosion of human authorship. While academic specialization is a necessary precondition for objective truth, it has morphed into a form of…
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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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The Architecture of Intellectual Failure and Synoptic Vision
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the failures of applied philosophy through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), focusing on the intellectual superficiality of the “New Atheism” and the pietistic political corruption of the Bjelke-Petersen administration. It argues that applied philosophy fails when it regresses into a “techné mindset”—a state…
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Re: Research Note: The Need to Support MICE. Weekly Newsletter – Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 | Dr Neville Buch
1 June 2026 Dear Michael, Nearly half of the year has passed. I am still not receiving any feedback, other than from you and Neil. I am not yet ready to pack up my bags and find a new home. But the warning signs are on the horizon. ‘One Nation’ now the most popular party in…
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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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1986 Pentecostal Gathering. Faith and Power in the Queensland Deep North
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The 1986 Pentecostal Gathering at the Christian Outreach Centre in Mansfield represents a definitive moment in the intersection of Queensland’s political and religious sub-cultures, marking the peak of an alliance between the Bjelke-Petersen administration and neo-Pentecostalism. This essay explores how the state’s political culture—defined by a “Deep North” ethos of…
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed and The Pedagogy of Choice: Freire & Illich and Convivial Learning
Dr Neville Buch Abstract As we navigate the educational landscape of 2026, the increasing formalization of online learning and the algorithmic character of machine-based education have resurrected the radical critiques of Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich. This paper provides the theoretical background for a Dimensions of Choice (DoC) analysis, contrasting the “banking system” of…
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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…