The Broken Overton Window. Civilizational Transit and Postcoloniality

Prognostic and methodological aspects of the current civilizational transit are studied. In recent history there are dramatic, qualitative and quantitative changes in all aspects of the anthropological cosmos: political and economic, social and cultural. The demographic dimension and ethno-racial balance of the Earth’s population rapidly change as well. Social studies and humanitarian disciplines have also found themselves in a situation of epistemological turmoil, during which their field of research is expanding, and methodological tools are improving. The basis of this article is the theory of complex systems. The range of forms of coexistence formed by the human population (“world order”) is considered a complex dynamic system developing in time and space, whose evolution periodically experiences chaos of the organization, then forming new orders of social and political coexistence. Attention is drawn to the fact that the umbrella category of postcoloniality is becoming the framework concept for the processes unfolding in the territories of North and South (“world majority”). The state of postcolonialism, like postmodernity or postcommunism, is a transit situation, one more stage in overcoming various forms of natural and social oppression on humanity’s route to the complex world order, a defining characteristic of which is sovereign personality.