However, by focusing on dialogue, dialogical self goes beyond the post-modernism idea of the decentralization of the self and the notion of fragmentation.
But others associate it with decentralization (spread of population without a well-defined centre), discontinuity (leapfrog development, as defined below), segregation of uses, and so forth.
This concept is connected with an ongoing decentralization of energy systems with energy efficiency and renewable energy being used also for energy ownership transition.