Interregnum

= " 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]

More information

1. Hegemony
2. Hegemonic Cycle

• Adam Tooze