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.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Space-time-action orientations of leaders who have a hubris-nemesis complex

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Something in the news reminded me of the ancient dynamics of hubris and Nemesis. Which reminded me that I used to write about those dynami...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Final gleanings from browsing around with Lefebvre in mind: Levin, Khatib & Lust, Weizman, Fields, Berger, Cameron, Turchin, Goffman, Collins, Fortune Society

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This is the fourth and final batch of gleanings I collected by happenstance while reading and writing for the three posts about Henri Lefeb...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Further gleanings from browsing around with Lefebvre in mind: Gottesdiener, Bollier, Chapin, Scharmer, Rey, Wanenchak, New Left Project, Pink Noise Rev, Friedman, Sterling, Schneier

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Here’s a third batch of gleanings that I collected by happenstance while doing the three posts about Lefebvre’s book The Production of Spac...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

More gleanings from browsing around with Lefebvre in mind: Ricks, Porter, Orwell, McCluhan, Graham, Brin

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[UPDATE — May 22, 2014: Edited to make the title more specific and soften some text.] Here’s a second batch of gleanings garnered by happ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Some gleanings from browsing around with Lefebvre in mind: Harvey, Foucault, Castells, Acemoglu & Robinson, Lofgren, Thrift, Pundita, Zalman

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[UPDATE — May 22, 2014: Edited to make the title more specific and add more gleanings.] While doing the preceding three posts on Lefebvre...

Lefebvre’s attention to time and action orientations in The Production of Space (3rd of 3)

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[UPDATE — May 12, 2014: Here’s the full post I said I’d put here when I first created this slot a couple weeks ago. I’ve deleted the place...
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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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