Thinkers Timeline

NOTE — years are layout anchors: when someone was active, or the date of a key work — not birth–death biographies and not a claim of precision. Boxes marked c. are especially approximate: ancient Near Eastern / Axial dates, multi-author clusters, and composition-vs-publication cases. Known caveats: Egyptian–Mesopotamian dream craft spans many centuries (the ~1200 BCE pin is New Kingdom / early omen literature, not a single book); when Zoroaster was active is among the most contested in the set (pin ~1000 BCE is conventional, not consensus); early Upanishads and the Buddha's dates are contested by decades or more; Laozi's authorship and date are themselves disputed; Confucius is traditional 551–479 BCE; Socrates is pinned to 399 BCE (death), Plato·Aristotle to ~375 BCE (Republic-era akrasia, not Aristotle's later Ethics); Aristotle·techne is a lexical pin (~350 BCE), not a separate Ethics monograph date; Leibniz's New Essays were written c. 1704 but published 1765; Schopenhauer's World as Will is conventionally 1819 though issued late 1818; Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is conventionally 1900 though it appeared late 1899; Jung is pinned to the 1912 break / Psychology of the Unconscious (collective unconscious), with Sabina Spielrein's 1912 destruction paper as the hinge often erased from the father–son story — his 1930s race/nation texts are argued in the Grounding margin, not as a second timeline pin; Gramsci's hegemony pin is c. 1930 inside the 1929–35 Prison Notebooks; Lacan's pin is the 1953 Rome discourse / RSI turn (Mirror Stage canonical text is 1949; objet a is a separate 1962 concept node from Seminar IX — do not back-project it); Joan Copjec is pinned to 1989 beside Žižek (the orthopsychic-subject essay; Read My Desire is 1994); Alenka Zupančič to Ethics of the Real (2000); Heidegger's Gestell lecture was delivered late 1953 and published 1954; Fanon is pinned to Black Skin, White Masks (1952), not only Wretched of the Earth (1961); Simondon 1958; Rosa's social acceleration to the 2005 German habilitation (English 2013); Jameson's postmodernism book 1991 (essay 1984); Wynter to the 2003 "Unsettling the Coloniality…" essay; Baudrillard·Lyotard clustered at 1974; Popper pinned to Conjectures and Refutations (1963) though falsifiability is already in the 1934/1959 Logic of Scientific Discovery; Fechner to Elemente der Psychophysik (1860). Period washes are the same kind of approximation. Edges are illustrative — for the precise, collision-checked version of any single lineage, follow the click-through to its source page. The timeline keeps the same "who gets a box" judgment calls the source diagrams already made, groups tightly-coupled co-authors the way they do (Deleuze & Guattari, Adorno & Horkheimer; Lorde · hooks), and quietly drops pure biographical asides. Grounding now carries Klein and Segal as the British clinic, plus Copjec and Zupančič as the 1989/Ljubljana half of the Lacan leap rather than as a Genealogies-only annex. Moreton-Robinson is the Australia/white-possessive pin. Klein (1946 schizoid-mechanisms paper; play technique from the 1920s, Envy and Gratitude 1957) is the British object-relations pin on Grounding; Hanna Segal (1957 symbol-formation) is the hinge that meets Lacan's Symbolic without becoming a second linguistics box; Chakrabarty (Provincializing Europe, 2000) and Moreton-Robinson (The White Possessive, 2015) sit inside Constellations' colonial-critique band; Mbembe ("Necropolitics," 2003) lives on Desire beside Foucault; Chun (Programmed Visions, 2011) is the software-studies foil on Technics. Colonial critique lives inside Constellations; techne / Gestell / Stiegler / Hui / Hayles / Chun is its own essay track — Genealogies still keeps Heidegger at Being and Time only. Mead is pinned to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), with Sex and Temperament (1935) argued in the essay; Benedict to Patterns of Culture (1934); Bateson to Naven (1936) / schismogenesis (the 1972 Steps plateau is the D&G import); Girard to Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1961), with Violence and the Sacred (1972) as the same-year rival to Anti-Oedipus; Taussig to Mimesis and Alterity (1993), via Benjamin's mimetic faculty.