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Thank you, Richard: Knowing the message but then acting
Richard Denniss What’s the point of neoliberalism?October 5, 2026 https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-neoliberalism
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The Desiccation of the Common Well: Identity Politics, Algorithmic Assessment, and the Crisis of Adult Responsibility
“The Cost of Outsourcing Human Thought” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay explores the metaphoric “Common Well” – “the Commonwealth of Common Thinking” — as the essential intersubjective foundation for shared reason, civic dialogue, and intergenerational wisdom [Buch 2026a: 12; Habermas 1979: 3]. Drawing upon contemporary critical sociology and…
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Death in Life and Life in Death: Affective, Intellectual, and Ontological Dimensions of Human Mortality
The “Why Accepting Death Givers Life Meaning” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship at this page: Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Why Accepting Death Givers Life Meaning” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship at: Abstract This essay explores the dialectical relationship between “Death in Life” and “Life in…
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Review Essay: A Critique of Visibility, Material History, Cognitive Dynamics, and the Authorship of Memory
Abstract: This essay synthesizes Monica Eileen Patterson’s conceptual “architectures of hiding” with Dr. Neville Buch’s “Dynamic of Cognition” (DoC) framework to interrogate the systematic erasure of material memory. It posits that the invisibility of contested landscapes, such as Barrambin (Victoria Park), is fundamentally rooted in a cognitive “analytical abyss”—a state where “specialized ignorance” severs material…
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The Epistemology of Fanaticism: Wishful Thinking, Political Exploitation, and the Reclamation of Higher Values in Sport
Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and political dynamics of sport-induced bias, focusing on how intense athletic allegiance can distort human reasoning and endanger broader societal values [Babad & Katz 1991, p. 1923; Swans Incident 2026, p. 173]. Grounded in Elisha Babad’s psychological formulation of Wishful Thinking (WT) —defined as the systematic alignment of expectations…
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Agency, Spiral History, and the Market Chaos Myth: Reclaiming Human Authorship through the Contributory Economy
The Reclaiming Your Agency from Market Chaos audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship. Abstract (humanly devised) Robber-Barons, War-oriented Profiteers, and other market exploiters run high on the perceived chaos of the Marketplace. The chaos is real because it is made real. Indeterminacy of the marketplace is real and yet so many scammers…
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The Nostalgia Trap
The “Why Pioneer Myths Buried Queensland History” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critically examines the pervasive role of nostalgia within Queensland’s local historiography[1][2]. While nostalgia can provide individual psychological comfort, foster community identity, and offer an accessible entry point into popular history, its uncritical dominance has restricted the…
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The Techné Critique Soundly Refuted
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay provides a rigorous, historiographical refutation of Bevin Luchel’s (2026) review of The Case for Intellectual History. Luchel’s dismissive charges of “pervasive hyperbole, analytical overreach, and methodological insularity” are unmasked as textbook symptoms of the “techné mindset”—a cognitive failure that reduces deep philosophical critique to administrative “potted thinking” and transactional…
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The Case for Intellectual History: A severe warning to Australian universities
The audio commentary for this question – “Queensland’s Spiral History of Stupidity”: This essay examines the systemic educational and cognitive degradation resulting from the absence of formal intellectual history courses in modern university curricula, particularly within Australian higher education. Grounded in the historiographical scholarship and Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework developed by Dr. Neville Buch,…
