These posts from 2011-12 continue my exploration of the cycle of visions. They focus most strongly on the active development of the chaos and holism visions in the course of the twentieth century. They also probe more deeply into the mechanisms underlying the cycle.

The next set of entries in this topic can be found here.

A Few Lessons from Prehistory

• Food Forests
• Times of Great Fear
• The First Global Civilization

 
The History of Chaos

• Prelude to Chaos
• Thrice Great Hermes
• Wild Talents
• Weird Science
• Chaos and Science Fiction
• All in His MInd
• Curioser and Curioser
• Chaos Mark I and Chaos Mark II
• Chaos is King!

 
Higher Knowledge Examined

• The Parameters of Higher Knowledge
• Higher Knowledge and Elite Control
• Higher Knowledge and Popular Culture
• Keeping the Peasants in Line

 
The Birth of A New Vision

• Democratic Chaos
• The Birth of a Vision
• Multiculturalism vs. the Hacker Ethic
• Dualism, Monism, and Holism
• A Resonance of Visions
• The Mechanical Philosophy and the System of Nature
• The Birth of a Vision, Reconsidered
• Of Gaps and Gears

 
How a New Vision Takes on Definition

• Materialists and Vitalists
• Clearing the Field
• The Unity of the Organism
• Of Parts and Wholes
• Democratic Materialism
• Holism’s Moral Center
• The Sticking Point