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Interregnum
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= " an interregnum, ... a period between two orders " [1]
Characteristics
In his critique of 'interegnum-based thinking', Adam Tooze gives the following charactertics of such thinking:
"There are clear normative standards (morbid v. healthy)
- there is a clear and necessary direction of history (old v. new)
- there is no threat of true novelty, because we are in a sequence of regnum-interregnum-regnum, which implies repetition not innovation.
- and there is an overarching naturalized structure which governs the process, the womb from which the new will eventually be born."
(https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-298-built-not-born-against)
Visualizations
The second graph represents "Giovanni Arrighi’s conceptualization of 'hegemonic sequence' [2].
Source: article by Adam Tooze [3]
