Victor Amoguez III

The Succession Machine: A Critical Genealogy of Schism, Charisma, and Institutional Continuity in MCGI

This conceptual essay extends the argument of Disposable Church (2026) by developing succession closure as a framework for understanding how charismatic religious institutions narrow the legitimate possibilities of leadership change over time. Using MCGI as a theory-generating ca...

The Succession Machine: A Critical Genealogy of Schism, Charisma, and Institutional Continuity in MCGI

This conceptual essay extends the argument of Disposable Church (2026) by developing succession closure as a framework for understanding how charismatic religious institutions narrow the legitimate possibilities of leadership change over time. Using MCGI as a theory-generating ca...

The Symbiotic Grift Economy: Interpretive Custody, Rescue Markets, and the Political Economy of Exit

This conceptual essay develops the Symbiotic Grift Economy, a concept originating in Victor P. Amoguez III’s 2026 book Disposable Church, as a framework for examining how high-demand institutions and the secondary markets organized around criticizing, diagnosing, treating, or rev...

The Zero-Cost Ledger: Hidden Labor, Household Subsidy, and the Accounting of Institutional Extraction

This conceptual essay develops the Zero-Cost Ledger as a framework for identifying economic costs that remain real while disappearing from an institution’s visible expense structure. Unpaid labor, unreimbursed transportation, privately supplied tools and equipment, professional s...