#bighistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bighistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Ja, ich bin an sich ein großer Fan von #BigHistory , wie sie z.B. auch #YuvalNoahHarari schreibt. Gleichwohl akzeptiere ich den Einwand von #Schlögel , wonach der Fokus auf #Geschichte als linearer #Zeit schnell den #Raum unsichtbar zu machen droht. Neben dem „Warum dann?“ sollte m.E. auch „Warum dort?“ gefragt werden. Habe so z.B. bei #BwieBerlin die Zeit-Räume von #Kohle und #Erdöl thematisiert, aus denen sich erst #Preußen und das #DeutscheReich ergaben: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/b-wie-berlin-babylon-preussen-und-der-fossile-faschismus/
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Origins : Complexity Rising
18 x 24 inches, Oil on Panel, A new painting from an earlier study.We tend to think of evolution as a biological process of rising complexity that began with single-celled organisms here on earth, but the universe has been undergoing a cosmic evolution of growing complexity from the very beginning.
Before there could be cells, there needed to be complex molecules and an array of elements to make them. -
Origins : Complexity Rising
18 x 24 inches, Oil on Panel, A new painting from an earlier study.We tend to think of evolution as a biological process of rising complexity that began with single-celled organisms here on earth, but the universe has been undergoing a cosmic evolution of growing complexity from the very beginning.
Before there could be cells, there needed to be complex molecules and an array of elements to make them. -
History is driven by surprising events, forecasting is driven by predictable ones.
To this I amend "as practiced". Approaches such as #PeterTurchin's #Cliodynamics or #DavidChristian's #BigHistory, along with other forms of #Systems, #Complexity, #Evolutionary, and #Information based approaches suggest that there may be lenses through which both the past and future become clearer.
I'd suggest that this observation might be most useful for identifying potentially poorly considered history and forecasting practices.
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The Axial Age: Co-emergence of universal empires, religions, and trade & commerce -- Trust
...It is no accident that universal religions appeared when both empires and exchange networks reached to the edge of the known universe. Nor is it an accident that one of the earliest religions of this type, Zoroastrianism, appeared ... at the hub of trade routes that were weaving Afro-Eurasia into a single world system....
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/71a3tx/the_axial_age_coemergence_of_universal_empires/
#dreddit #AxialAge #religion #empire #trust #BigHistory #DavidChristian