Re: World Systems and World Views

World views certainly belong in the study of world-systems, and not as a
minor or subordinate feature, as Information Networks appear to be, but as
a constitutive part of world-systems.  It strikes me that the only way to
understand the concept of "world" in "world-system" is as perceived and
participated-in totality:  all notions of "world" as defined
geographically have been systematically torn to shreds in the past 20
years.

That being said, it seems to me that the perception of worldviews in their
"rational" or "subliminal" aspects, and the attempt to conceptualize them
in systemic terms involves continuing to utlize those 19th century
paradigms (namely the division into materialism and idealism) that we are
supposed to be getting away from.       

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Boris Stremlin
bc70219@binghamton.edu