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The Idiocy of Managerialism
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay investigates the primary intellectual threat facing contemporary Australian society: the systemic rise of managerialism, institutional “bubble thinking,” anti-intellectualism, and a-historical framing. Drawing upon the historical and sociological scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch, the essay demonstrates how this cognitive crisis degrades critical inquiry across four core public domains.…
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I am the leading Australian scholar in the new field of learning to which we can call Cognition Histories and Sociology. I am involved in several projects of international collaboration. I owe Optus $212.32 and my internet has been restricted so much that it looks as if I might be off-line for a few days,…
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The Architecture of Reform and The Self-Defeating Spiral
https://www.academia.edu/175403989/The_Architecture_of_Reform_A_Comparative_Analysis_of_Political_Cognition_and_Policy_Intelligence_1950s_vs_2020s Political reform is fundamentally an ontological movement, navigating the subject from the state of Geworfenheit (thrownness) toward the restoration of human authorship. This analysis employs Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) to contrast the “thick” ethical knowledge of the 1950s with the “analytical abyss” of the 2020s. In the mid-20th century, reform was…
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Model of Intellect
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract A model of intellect “measure” in the “fitness” of big ideas together, and the big ideas including their own measure of “doubt”. The measure is not strictly mathematical; it has no count. The measure is of vision and imagination. Fitness is the “movement” in compatibility. Fitness is always challenged in lifelong…
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Experience versus Market: Bevin Luchel’s Polemics and Kåre S. Fuglseth’s Phenomenological Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative critical analysis of Bevin Luchel’s (2026a, 2026b, 2026c) series of market-reductionist polemics—The Desperation of Derivation, The Illusion of the Non Market Panacea, and The Mirage of the Subsidized Mind—against Kåre S. Fuglseth’s (2026) phenomenological framework of educational values and virtues. We demonstrate that Luchel’s reliance on Carl Menger’s subjective…
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The Cynicism of the Market: Foundherentism, Contributory Economy, and the Subversion of Luchel’s Rent-Seeking Epistemology
Abstract This critical reply essay deconstructs Bevin Luchel’s The Subsidised Imagination: A Critique of Rent-Seeking Epistemology in Buch’s The Crucible of Consciousness (2026). It demonstrates that Luchel’s deployment of public choice theory and subjective value theory constitutes a profound category error and a form of “vulgar pragmatism.” By reducing the value of intellectual labour to…
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Every Chapter of this story utterly awe-inspiring
Every Chapter of this story utterly awe-inspiring https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F2540060723086109%2F&show_text=true&width=267&t=0 Featured Image: Judith Wright and Jack Wright
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The Magoi Manifesto: Rescuing Cognition from Institutional Dogma
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The Magoi Hermeneutic: Dismantling Institutional Arrogance and Reclaiming Cognitive Freedom Abstract This essay explores the historical concept of “magoi thinking originally a Persian Zoroastrian practice of naturalistic observation and intellectual inquiry and its systematic distortion by modern institutions and arrogant scholars who attempt to replace rigorous hermeneutics with simplistic, supernatural…
