Materials for Two Theories: TIMN and STA:C

How and why four cardinal forms of organization — tribes, institutions, markets, networks (TIMN) — explain social evolution. How and why space-time-action cognitions (STA:C) explain people's mindsets.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Incidentals (4th of 5): apropos terrorist mindsets (à la STA and TIMN)

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This post compiles a string of comments about jihadi and related terrorist mindsets that involve millenarian thinking. Most reflect my int...
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Incidentals (3rd of 5): apropos the future of conflict (and TIMN)

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Some comments that fit in this five-part scrapbook pertain to the evolving nature of conflict. These comments include a couple of swipes at...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Incidentals (2nd of 5): apropos tribes vis à vis the other TIMN forms

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The prior post concerned definitions of tribes as such. This post — serving, like all the posts in this five-part series, as a kind of scra...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Incidentals (1st of 5): apropos definitions of “tribes” (and TIMN)

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While I’ve been remiss at advancing TIMN and STA here for several months, I was more active than usual posting incidental comments elsewhere...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

TIMN: some implications for thinking about political philosophy and ideology, cont. (2nd of 3 parts)

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Two weeks ago, I posted a foreword and Part I on TIMN’s implications for political philosophy and ideology. Since then, I’ve amended Part I...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Baseball trilogy (3rd of 3): religion — “God invented baseball”

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[UPDATE — March 12, 2013: In keeping with this post’s themes, the stimulating new book by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, and Peter J. Schwa...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

TIMN: some implications for thinking about political philosophy and ideology (1st of 3 parts)

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[UPDATE — October 10, 2009: I've amended Part I a bit, by editing a few words, adding a new paragraph to end the subsection on democrac...
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David Ronfeldt
Professional status: retired from RAND since 2008. Fields: first 20 years, U.S.-Latin American security issues (Mexico, Cuba); next 15 years, worldwide implications of the information revolution (cyberocracy, cyberwar, netwar, swarming, noopolitik, the nexus-state). Current goals: finish quadriform framework about social evolution (past, present, future); finish social cognition framework about people's space-time-agency orientations. Publications: mostly online at rand.org and firstmonday.org.
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