- Title
- Anti-hierarchical culture in media-based creative collectives: sketching originary analyses
- Creator
- Matthews, Benjamin
- Relation
- Anthropoetics Vol. 22, Issue 2
- Relation
- http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2202/2202matthews/
- Publisher
- University of California
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In this paper I employ originary thinking in the analysis of the Enspiral Network, a novel collective organisation, made possible only by virtue of digital communication technology. Its origin was a small group of coworkers in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2010 that grew over time to become an intentionally “horizontally” structured, decentralised organisation governed by its more than 300 participants, working primarily in a variety of social enterprise and creative industries. The organisation is interesting for its capacity to maintain stability in the absence of strong hierarchy by using socio-technical systems that are constructed around digital communication technologies; and in particular, the infrastructure of the internet. The digitally altered scene of culture that has fostered this organisation is a secular one, and as Gans has argued, on the secular scene of culture the sacred centre is implicit
- Subject
- creative collectives; media-based; anti-hierarchical culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446331
- Identifier
- uon:42834
- Identifier
- ISSN:1083-7264
- Language
- eng
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