Did Indonesia or Zhèng Hé or both saved Europe in the 15th Century? Columbus' voyage to America s... more Did Indonesia or Zhèng Hé or both saved Europe in the 15th Century? Columbus' voyage to America saved Europe from marginalization, as Prof. Alfred Kohler stated, but the voyage itself required then novel technologies of navigation. They were developed in response to information that found their way from Zhèng Hé's voyages via Indonesia to Italy. Zhèng Hé's rebooting of the Maritime Silk Road caused a credit crunch in Europe which made Europe's re-connection to the Silk Road a pivot especially in the context of the Renaissance Revolution
Workshop at the University of Vienna, Saturday June 29th, 2024. I will deliver the second part of... more Workshop at the University of Vienna, Saturday June 29th, 2024. I will deliver the second part of my presentation at the ADHILAC conference in Curazao. Only 5 minutes of talk - that means perfect preparation by powerpoint
KonaK. Realitätsausschnitte aus Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik 113, 2023
Sowohl die Monroe-Doktrin als auch die Manifest Destiny sind zwei politische Grundsätze der USA, ... more Sowohl die Monroe-Doktrin als auch die Manifest Destiny sind zwei politische Grundsätze der USA, die in Europa kaum verstanden werden. Mit der Monroe -Doktrin klinkte sich die USA aus dem System der modernen internationalen Beziehungen, wie sie am Wiener Kongress (1814-15) festgelegt wurden, aus, wohingegen die Manifest Destiny wahrscheinlich die wirkliche revolutionäre Botschaft der USA, die einmal eine revolutionäre Macht war, darstellen könnte –und das betrifft in gewisser Weise auch den vergessen gemac ten Teil der österreichischen Geschichte.
KonaK Realitätsausschnitte aus Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik Nr. 111, 2023
KonaK Journal Title Die Amerikas und der Zweite Weltkrieg im Jahr 1943" The paper by Uwe Plachetk... more KonaK Journal Title Die Amerikas und der Zweite Weltkrieg im Jahr 1943" The paper by Uwe Plachetka is "Fault Line wars" - in German Bruchlinienkriege (p.26 et seq.). It is on the social dynamics and a scetch on how the Fault Line Wars, Samuel Huntington postulated, really break out
It is not a necessity to introduce the prominent historian of transatlantic slavery, Michael Zeu... more It is not a necessity to introduce the prominent historian of transatlantic slavery, Michael Zeuske in a special way, but I was peer-invited to submit this paper to a special issue in honor of Michael Zeuske (aka Festschrift). Seen from a very special perspective, the Afro-Brazilian "cultural bridge" ABRASA linking Vienna to Salvador de Bahia, Brasil, Michael Zeuske devises crucial evidences to confirm the calibration of the current models of production principles as employed also for the paper on the Peruvian anti-colonial hero Tupac Amaru II, also put on academia.edu.
ISA Research comittee on Economy and Society, 2022
Andrea Komlosy (2022) provides a foresight study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemics based on... more Andrea Komlosy (2022) provides a foresight study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemics based on models of Big History. Andrea Komlosy's Foresight study based on Big History. Based on Grinin's conception of production principles and Belich's mine of information on the impact of the 14th century Black Death, is it possible to draw "strange parallels" in time?
In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultur... more In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultural areas of original crop evolution and crop diversity and therefore as pristine information-based World Systems. The relevant information is the DNA of the cultivars. Therefore, the concept of Vavilov cultures is presented here to identify some enabling and constraining conditions of the developments of regional socioeconomic systems. These conditions are considered as the regime, such evolutionary processes are subject to. This issue is not clear to the eyes. The conceptual application of Vavilov's law of homologous series to socio-ecological evolution holds true for Vavilov cultures.
In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultur... more In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultural areas of original crop evolution and crop diversity. This issue is not clear to the eyes. Vavilov's law of homologous series as alternative to Darwin's criterion "Survival of the fittest" means "the fittest to fit in into what?". The specific trait of a Vavilov culture was found in indigenous Peru situated in Pierre Lévy's "anthropological space of territory" and and as a "survival" in Indonesia although already situated in the "anthropological space of commodities".
Information systems are essential for "response agriculture". The famous IntiWatanas, t... more Information systems are essential for "response agriculture". The famous IntiWatanas, the Inca sundials were a technological detail of "response agriculture" as the development of the Inca Empire was a matter of coping with the challenges of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the Central Andean Highlands. Such archaic but smart techniques can be understood only when considered in their original socio-ecologic context.
This paper is on Admiral Zheng He in the context of his possibly real mission: The reconstruction... more This paper is on Admiral Zheng He in the context of his possibly real mission: The reconstruction of the maritime Silk Road under Chinese hegemony in the context of (a) World System construction and (b) the existence of a specific category of historical documents that refer to global history (discussed in the first part) The original research was done in 2017 and 2018, the findings of the trip in 2019 aren't integrated here. The online versions has some alterations to the printed work expected to be published in 2020
Did Indonesia or Zhèng Hé or both saved Europe in the 15th Century? Columbus' voyage to America s... more Did Indonesia or Zhèng Hé or both saved Europe in the 15th Century? Columbus' voyage to America saved Europe from marginalization, as Prof. Alfred Kohler stated, but the voyage itself required then novel technologies of navigation. They were developed in response to information that found their way from Zhèng Hé's voyages via Indonesia to Italy. Zhèng Hé's rebooting of the Maritime Silk Road caused a credit crunch in Europe which made Europe's re-connection to the Silk Road a pivot especially in the context of the Renaissance Revolution
Workshop at the University of Vienna, Saturday June 29th, 2024. I will deliver the second part of... more Workshop at the University of Vienna, Saturday June 29th, 2024. I will deliver the second part of my presentation at the ADHILAC conference in Curazao. Only 5 minutes of talk - that means perfect preparation by powerpoint
KonaK. Realitätsausschnitte aus Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik 113, 2023
Sowohl die Monroe-Doktrin als auch die Manifest Destiny sind zwei politische Grundsätze der USA, ... more Sowohl die Monroe-Doktrin als auch die Manifest Destiny sind zwei politische Grundsätze der USA, die in Europa kaum verstanden werden. Mit der Monroe -Doktrin klinkte sich die USA aus dem System der modernen internationalen Beziehungen, wie sie am Wiener Kongress (1814-15) festgelegt wurden, aus, wohingegen die Manifest Destiny wahrscheinlich die wirkliche revolutionäre Botschaft der USA, die einmal eine revolutionäre Macht war, darstellen könnte –und das betrifft in gewisser Weise auch den vergessen gemac ten Teil der österreichischen Geschichte.
KonaK Realitätsausschnitte aus Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik Nr. 111, 2023
KonaK Journal Title Die Amerikas und der Zweite Weltkrieg im Jahr 1943" The paper by Uwe Plachetk... more KonaK Journal Title Die Amerikas und der Zweite Weltkrieg im Jahr 1943" The paper by Uwe Plachetka is "Fault Line wars" - in German Bruchlinienkriege (p.26 et seq.). It is on the social dynamics and a scetch on how the Fault Line Wars, Samuel Huntington postulated, really break out
It is not a necessity to introduce the prominent historian of transatlantic slavery, Michael Zeu... more It is not a necessity to introduce the prominent historian of transatlantic slavery, Michael Zeuske in a special way, but I was peer-invited to submit this paper to a special issue in honor of Michael Zeuske (aka Festschrift). Seen from a very special perspective, the Afro-Brazilian "cultural bridge" ABRASA linking Vienna to Salvador de Bahia, Brasil, Michael Zeuske devises crucial evidences to confirm the calibration of the current models of production principles as employed also for the paper on the Peruvian anti-colonial hero Tupac Amaru II, also put on academia.edu.
ISA Research comittee on Economy and Society, 2022
Andrea Komlosy (2022) provides a foresight study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemics based on... more Andrea Komlosy (2022) provides a foresight study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemics based on models of Big History. Andrea Komlosy's Foresight study based on Big History. Based on Grinin's conception of production principles and Belich's mine of information on the impact of the 14th century Black Death, is it possible to draw "strange parallels" in time?
In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultur... more In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultural areas of original crop evolution and crop diversity and therefore as pristine information-based World Systems. The relevant information is the DNA of the cultivars. Therefore, the concept of Vavilov cultures is presented here to identify some enabling and constraining conditions of the developments of regional socioeconomic systems. These conditions are considered as the regime, such evolutionary processes are subject to. This issue is not clear to the eyes. The conceptual application of Vavilov's law of homologous series to socio-ecological evolution holds true for Vavilov cultures.
In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultur... more In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as agricultural areas of original crop evolution and crop diversity. This issue is not clear to the eyes. Vavilov's law of homologous series as alternative to Darwin's criterion "Survival of the fittest" means "the fittest to fit in into what?". The specific trait of a Vavilov culture was found in indigenous Peru situated in Pierre Lévy's "anthropological space of territory" and and as a "survival" in Indonesia although already situated in the "anthropological space of commodities".
Information systems are essential for "response agriculture". The famous IntiWatanas, t... more Information systems are essential for "response agriculture". The famous IntiWatanas, the Inca sundials were a technological detail of "response agriculture" as the development of the Inca Empire was a matter of coping with the challenges of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the Central Andean Highlands. Such archaic but smart techniques can be understood only when considered in their original socio-ecologic context.
This paper is on Admiral Zheng He in the context of his possibly real mission: The reconstruction... more This paper is on Admiral Zheng He in the context of his possibly real mission: The reconstruction of the maritime Silk Road under Chinese hegemony in the context of (a) World System construction and (b) the existence of a specific category of historical documents that refer to global history (discussed in the first part) The original research was done in 2017 and 2018, the findings of the trip in 2019 aren't integrated here. The online versions has some alterations to the printed work expected to be published in 2020
Austria's acknowledgement of Paraguay's souvereignty was perhaps motivated by Brazil's policy aga... more Austria's acknowledgement of Paraguay's souvereignty was perhaps motivated by Brazil's policy against the Argentine dictator Rosas. This draft paper based on documents in archives argues that such political lines would have require backbones - so the absence of something simiilar to the present Chinese conception of One Belt One Road may have had dire consequences.
The powerpoint presentation is an aspect of my project on the informations from the Zhèng Hé expe... more The powerpoint presentation is an aspect of my project on the informations from the Zhèng Hé expeditions which reached Europe to foster the scientific renaissance (Fra Mauro, Toscanelli and the Austran Georg Purbachius via Enea Silvio Piccolomini) to develop astro-navigation for Columbus and Vasco da Gama. The topic presented here is an explanation model how the Zhèng Hé cult emerged especially in Semarang, Indonesia - which is an important place of cultural memory because Di Conti discovered Java for Europe and is the chief identifable "stimulus disseminator" and informant for Fra Mauro, possibly not only via the Braccolini report. But it seems that Zhèng Hé was turned into a kind of founding father by the Chinese diaspora to define their own identity, and communities. In the case of Semarang the story of Zhèng Hé's colleague to fell sick and was cured in a cave resembles the Inca myth of the brethen Ayar who emerged in caves (Pacari-tambo, cave of emergence) to found the Inca capital Cusco.
Symposium on Issues of Insular Southeast Asia (Malysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and the Phil... more Symposium on Issues of Insular Southeast Asia (Malysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and the Phillipines) on research and collaborative activities, managed by Gabriele Weichart.
Can a SouthEast Asian Distant Mirror make visible the culturally encrypted message of the Inca dr... more Can a SouthEast Asian Distant Mirror make visible the culturally encrypted message of the Inca drama Ollantay? An abridgment of the ADHILAC Lecture at Curacao 2024
Multikulturalismus ohne multikulturelle Gesellschaft-ist das möglich? Vortrag und Diskussion. Dat... more Multikulturalismus ohne multikulturelle Gesellschaft-ist das möglich? Vortrag und Diskussion. Datum 15. März 18 Uhr 30 KONAK-Forschungs-und Kulturverein für Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik Arthaberplatz 4/4, erreichbar mit Straßenbahnlinie O stadtauswärts, Stadtion Arthaberplatz linke Seite, graue Einfahrt Derzeit wird Diversität und "Buntheit" zunehmend als alternativlos dargestellt. Die EU lehnt das Konzept der multikulturellen Gesellschaft als Art zwangsweise Assimilation ab. Konkrete multikulturelle Gesellschaften waren jedoch im Zuge der Entkolonialisierung auf der sozialwissenschaftlichen Agenda. John Sydenham Furnivall analysierte erstmals multikulturelle Gesellschaften als Kritik am Kolonialismus in Südostasien. Im deutschen Sprachraum gilt Paraguay als Fallbeispiel einer bikulturellen Nation, die sich im antikolonialen Widerstand formierte. Die sozialen Integration solcher Gesellschaften mit demokratischen Mitteln ist in all diesen Fällen eine offene Frage. Die USA wischte sie mit der Manifest Destiny gegen den Willen selbst George Washingtons vom Tisch und benötigten als einziges Land zur Abschaffung der Sklaverei einen Bürgerkrieg. Deshalb ist das herrschende Narrativ über Diversität in den USA berechtigt. Ob es auch für Gesellschaften außerhalb der USA sinnvoll ist, soll anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele zur Diskussion gestellt werden. Dr. Uwe Christian Plachetka dissertierte bereits im Jahre 1998 mit dem Fallbeispiel Paraguay als "Teststrecke" für Theorien des Multikulturalismus. Mehrere Publikationen zu diesem Thema und Erkundungsreisen nach Indonesien, das sich als muslimisches Land eine multikulturelle Verfassung gegeben hatte.
A speech delivered at an international conference to celebrate the 200th jubilee of the independe... more A speech delivered at an international conference to celebrate the 200th jubilee of the independence of Brazil. Why Brazil helped Paraguay to get her national souvereignty acknowledged in the context of the international system of international relations established by the Congress of Vienna in the 19th century and Brazil's backing the Austrian struggle to get free after 1945 (according to Norbert Hölzl).
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