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Category: Intellectual History
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I am the State or Not. Sovereign Capture and the Path to Citizen Reclamation
3 August 2026 Dear Premier and John, Premier you are in deep political trouble. I refer you not simply to the essays I have sent you but also to the story in InDaily today. Perhaps Dr John Harrison and I can save yourself from yourself. John, is the most expert on Queensland media and political history, and…
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The Architecture of Bureaucratic Humanism and Cognitive Corruption
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The “Problem One, Two, Three” identifies a fundamental breakdown in intelligent communication characterized by a recursive failure to recognize corruption—defined as an abuse in thinking—across three distinct scales: the Individual (One), the Cohort/Persons (Two), and the System (Three). This breakdown is rooted in Bureaucratic Humanism, a state where the movement’s intellectual core is hollowed out by a Techné Mindset that…
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Looking the Premier of Queensland in the Eye
Abstract This essay examines the fluctuating cognition and decision-making processes of the Queensland Government regarding the 2032 Olympic Summer Games (erroneously referred to in the query as 2023). By analysing the transitions between the Palaszczuk, Miles, and Crisafulli administrations, the analysis reveals a conflict between “managerialism” and the historical reality of the urban landscape. The record of stadium infrastructure proposals—from the…
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Landscape, Sovereignty and Migration, Continental Confusion: Media Misreporting and the History of Ceuta
Thinking: AbstractThis essay examines the systemic media misreporting of the 2021 and 2026 Ceuta incidents, arguing that international coverage fundamentally failed to acknowledge the geographical and historical complexities of the region. By mischaracterizing the North African enclave as part of the European mainland, media outlets ignored the unique status of Spain’s autonomous cities and the…
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Researcher Prejudice: The Friction Between Technical Reductionism and Lived Experience
Dr Neville Buch I participated in a “Driver Simulation VR, experiment in a university laboratory”. Afterwards, the experience included Merlo rewards coffee and pumpkin roll. I have no complaints about the coffee as it was free from the rewards card for the driver experiment but the pumpkin roll was flattened and overheated, much like the…
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Certificate of Participation ISCHE 47 and why Australian universities can’t understand their war on sociology, and what to do about it?
The perennial tension between intellectual detachment and social activism is often framed as a binary choice. However, the scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch and the broader intellectual history of the human sciences suggest that this is a false dichotomy. Drawing on the foundational axiom that ”understanding history is philosophy in practice,” this essay argues that…
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Australian Take on the Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: The Scandal of the Mechanized Mind
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines Mark Noll’s retrospective judgment on the thirty-year legacy of his seminal work, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), through the critical lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s research into evangelical historiography and the sociology of religion. While Noll observes a “brighter” picture in the sheer volume of Christian academic output in the twenty-first century,…
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Philosophy Today: New York Times, 6 July 2026
MORNING READ Black-and-white head shots of David Chalmers, Dillon Plunkett, Rosie Campbell and Robert Long. Aaron Wojack for The New York Times (top left); Ian C. Bates for The New York Times Call it the revenge of the philosophy majors: With the rise of artificial intelligence, cutting-edge labs like Anthropic and DeepMind are hiring experts…
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Declining Quality and Implications for Elitism: Democratic Elitism and the Spiral Theory of Stupidity
Dr Neville Buch Abstract When I wake up in the morning and listen to the radio news broadcast, I am bewildered. Have I left the earth time zone to end up in a bizarre alien landscape? As I analyse the situation, the thoughts are there being a world of ‘news as entertainment’ without any history,…
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The Popularity in the Semantics of Care. The Hunger for Human Authorship and Intellectual Renewal
Dr Neville Buch Abstract On 16 June 2026, Dr. Buch, on the Academia.Edu platform, achieved 16,925 document views, 49 profile views, and 284 unique visitors. The next day, what was achieved was 13,373 document views, 209 profile views, and 1,635 unique visitors. The trend had begun on 15 June with 10,532 document views, 3 profile…