Mind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse

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Mind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse (Non-Kairos references)

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Alexander, Christopher.  A Pattern Language. Oxford University Press, 1977. [summary]

Alexander, Christopher.  Harmony-Seeking Computations: a science of non-classical dynamics based on the progressive evolution of the larger whole. International Journal for Unconventional Computing (IJUC), 2009. [text]

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Diamond, Jared M.  Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005. [summary]

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Friedman, Thomas L.  The World Is Flat; the globalized world in the twenty-first century. Penguin, 2006.

Friedman, Thomas L.  Hot, Flat, and Crowded: why we need a green revolution. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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Handy, Charles B.  The Empty Raincoat: making sense of the future. Random House, 1995.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas.  The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. Island Press, 2006. [summary]

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Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark.  Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Yolles, Maurice I. / Frieden, B. Roy / Kemp, G.  Toward a formal theory of socioculture: a yin-yang information-based theory of social change. Kybernetes, 37, 2008, 7, pp. 850 - 909. [abstract]

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Yolles, Maurice I.  Knowledge Cybernetics: a metaphor for post-normal science. In: Steve Wallis (Ed), Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views and Advancements, IGI Global, Hershey, 2010.

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Young, Arthur M.  The Geometry of Meaning. Robert Briggs Associates, 1984.