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.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Updates about missing posts (5th of 5): “TIMN in 20 minutes” (7th of 7): toward a mathematics of TIMN?”

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This is the fifth and final post in this pesky series about five missing posts from years gone by. It ends my travail to revisit the prosp...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Updates about missing posts (4th of 5): “What the Occupy Protests Mean: A TIMN Interpretation (Part IV) — Consequences and Implications”

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This is the fourth in a retrospective series about five missing posts from years gone by. It continues my balky effort to revisit the pros...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Updates about missing posts (3rd of 5): “Bauwens’ “partner state” (part 2 of 3) … vis à vis TIMN”

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This is the third in a series about five missing posts from years gone by. It continues my retrospective effort to revisit the prospects f...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Updates about missing posts (2nd of 5): “TIMN: some implications for thinking about political philosophy and ideology, cont. (3rd of 3 parts)”

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This is the second post in a series that revisits the prospects for finishing five missing posts from years gone by. It continues my hesit...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Updates about missing posts (1st of 5): “Millenarian terrorism — an STA perspective (4 of 4): implications for policy and strategy”

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Months ago, I was reminded of five past series of posts that I never finished — each is missing one post. The missing five, listed chronolo...
Friday, September 20, 2013

America 3.0 illuminates significance of nuclear families — in line with TIMN (Part 2 of 2)

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[UPDATE — October 20, 2013:   I've added an appendix at the end.  It reflects an email exchange between Bennett and me regarding this p...
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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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