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Time Between Worlds are "the pivotal epochs in world system transformation as times involving profound educational disruption and innovation. These were times when all four of the major crisis vectors—sense-making, meaning making, legitimacy, and capability—are beset by disruptions of intergenerational transmission.A time between worlds is turbulent to say the least.
Description. Edward Hall: "Monochronic time (M-time) and polychronic time (P-time) represent two variant solutions to the use of both time and space as organizing frames for activities. Space is included because the two systems (time and space) are funtionally interrelated. M-time emphasises schedules, segmentation and promptness.
Discussion David J. Temple: "The ancient Greeks had a word (an archetype, really) for this kind of time: kairos, meaning “a chance, penetrable opening” in the flow of time, which allows for something truly new to emerge. It is a potent time of meaning-making and ...
The Thermodynamics of Empire. STONELEIGH: "The thermodynamics of empire is an underlying theme in Homer-Dixon’s discourse, particularly in relation to ancient Rome, although parallels are drawn with the present day. Homer-Dixon has a talent for vividly illustrating his descriptions of Rome’s dominance and subsequent decline with examples ...
Description Barry Rodriguez: 1. "Then another period of aridification began 8000 years ago—the Great Drying. In North Africa, wetlands evaporated as grazing herds compounded the climate problem. Prairies degraded into Sahara dunes. Some adapted to desert life ...
There are noticiable transitions between these three phases, with groups becoming quiet when the hit the groan zone, and the energy becoming lighter when concrete proposals and decisions begin to emerge. I intervened at least one in each of these four ...
But here, he makes the remarkable connection between the youthfulness of a population, and its anti-entropic capacity: In human beings, the motive force, i.e. "the human expression of the anti-entropic movement" (but which actually increases its tempo), stands against the 'death wish', i.e. "the human angle on accepting entropy's advance.
