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Category: MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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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…
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The Altar and the Academy: Worldviews in a Secular Age
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay introduces the complex interplay between education, religion, and the rising influence of non-religion in contemporary society. It explores how educational institutions have become primary battlegrounds for competing worldviews, ranging from conservative “combat concepts” to the Enlightenment-driven secular critiques of faith. Drawing on historical and sociological perspectives, the discussion…
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Global Themes that Australian Studies-in-Religion scholars are missing
10 May 2026 Dr Neville Buch Necessity and Choice. The Architecture of Necessity and Human Authorship Abstract This essay explores the dialectic between necessity and choice within the frameworks of semantic theory, sociology of education, and religious studies. It posits that while neoliberal models of “rational choice” attempt to reduce human behaviour to the mechanical…
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The Architecture of Epistemic Violence and the Techné Mindset
Contents Abstract 2 The Architecture of Epistemic Violence and Power: A Synoptic View.. 2 Endnotes and References. 4 Bibliography. 5 POSTSCRIPT QUESTIONS. 6 Explain the difference between ‘know-how’ and ‘know-that’ in communicative competence. 6 How does Sellars defend his ‘big picture’ against representationistic critics?. 7 How does the ‘Synoptic Vision’…
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The Reflective Ascent. Reclaiming Human Authorship and Cognition (with postscript questions)
The primary barrier to individual self-improvement in the contemporary era is denoetization—the systemic and mechanical liquidation of the human capacity to judge. This “immense regression” is characterized by a “techné mindset” that reduces the complexity of a human life to “measurable utility” and data sets. Caught within the “technical abyss,” persons often succumb to “symbolic…
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“I have been humiliated in my professional life and I don’t think I will ever be able to be in the same room as former colleagues”
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The “academic immense regression” of the twenty-first century is defined by a systemic transition from a community of scholars to a technocratic industry governed by “retail governance” and “Instrumental-Rationality”. This essay examines the profound social harm within the university sector, as evidenced by the editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement…
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The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop
PDF FILE: The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop https://www.academia.edu/166781431/The_Cognitive_Organic_Mechanics_of_Outlander_s_Historical_Workshop The Outlander Workshop: Cognitive Landscapes of the 18th Century I. Contractarianism and the Strategic Social Deal In Outlander, the social structures of 1743 Scotland are characterized by a Hobbesian Contractarianism. This political theory posits that legitimate authority…
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The Dynamic of Cognition and the Archetype of the Person, and No Regrets
Dr Neville Buch https://www.academia.edu/166258355/An_Account_of_Intellectual_Communities_The_Dynamic_of_Cognition_and_the_Archetype_of_the_Person This essay provides a comprehensive Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis of the diverse intellectual communities detailed in the sources, including the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE), the Sea of Faith in Australia (SOFiA), and radical Christian experiments such as the House of Freedom and the Waiters Union. It argues…
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Conference Series 2016-2024
2016 PHA Melbourne Conference Abstract The 2016 Professional Historians Association (PHA) Melbourne Conference, themed “Working History,” represented a significant milestone in Dr. Neville Buch’s career within a broader decade of national and international scholarly engagement (2016–2024). At this gathering, Dr. Buch presented two distinct but complementary facets of his work: the digital innovation of…