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Beyond the Semantics of Care: Restoring Human Authorship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay critically examines Frank Furedi’s rejection of the term “carer” in the context of the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework. While Furedi identifies a genuine concern regarding the transformation of intimate bonds into bureaucratic transactions, his focus on semantics is characterized as a “non-issue” compared to the deeper…
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The Archimedean Illusion: Williams, Rawls, and the Humanistic Discipline
Abstract William’s meta-critique of contemporary ethics foresaw several problems identified by Bernard Stiegler, Susan Haack, and Nel Noddings, among others. This includes practices of denoetization, regression in the abuse of logic, specialised ignorance, and plain uncaring. Rawl’s Theory of Justice unintentionally opened the doorway to these soul-destroying mental practices, which leads to unfortunate behaviour. The…
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Further Thoughts on the Spectrum? The Mirage of the Matrix: Beyond Statistical Political Typologies
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay investigates the epistemological failures inherent in modern political typologies, specifically analysing The Washington Post article regarding a Pew Research Center study that splits Americans into nine groups. While the study attempts to transcend simple partisan binaries, it falls into the trap of “thin” conceptualization and statistical reductionism. A critical…
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What is Wrong with Collective Responsibility? Beyond Neutrality: The Myth of Institutional Detachment
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay provides a critical assessment of Nick Cater’s recent critique of Western institutions, specifically his condemnation of the Hampshire Police’s embrace of anti-racism as a departure from the “classical liberal ideal of neutrality”. Utilizing the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework, the analysis argues that Cater’s argument rests on…
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Two Academic Papers on Spectrums of Belief, Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition
How Spectrums go Wrong? Beyond Blunt Binaries in Social Analysis: Abstract This essay critically evaluates the use of spectrums and typologies as analytical tools within the humanities and social sciences. It argues that not all spectrums possess equal explanatory power; rather, there exists a hierarchy ranging from “blunt” categorical oppositions to dynamic cognitive maps. Broad spectrums…
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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…