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-- By NonaFarahnik - 18 Feb 2010 |
| | We have a hard time recognizing the less identifiable and more difficult ways by which powerful institutions bombard us with particular attitudes and creeds. This ignorance perpetuates the separation borne of institutional identification, and leads to moral rationalization grounded in institutional folklore, not in reality. A simple experiment to witness this phenomenon can be performed by watching the Fox News Channel during prime time. Journalism today mostly serves to help obfuscate what is actually happening in the world around us (particularly from 2:45). We are often left unable to see how an institution functions and its direct relationship to how we think and function. |
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> | If institutions unconsciously move us by creating some notion of a general will whose furtherance demands the suppression of the particular, we should be focused on improving the frameworks of society's most basic structures so they are more just. The first way to improve these frameworks is to rip off the wool. At the least, leading should understand that managing an organization is managing human sociality; not managing an abstract entity. |
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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." |
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collaborative organizations stretching across the whole breadth of
humanity in the blink of an eye. My work and the work of hundreds of
thousands of other people has shown that anarchic production in such
communities can not only rival but surpass capitalist innovation, and
that cultural distribution will be massively democratized, leading to
the collapse of power-concentrating mass media...
Organizations make their own realities- mass communications increased that power, but the net with a much more anarchic model—there are more voices—fuck with an organization’s identity as its own thing…things go viral… centralized organizational structure doesn’t matter anymore…
The ability to disrupt communication is changing dramatically.
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| | A model of how framing the structure for people can make things happen. Finding common ground tha appeals to everyone and connect them through a shared vision, and if you can take a step further a shared experienceLet's Do It. This is an especially effective example because it shows how the decentralization if information reduces the need for state entities to do the social work that is characteristic to its existence. |
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> | Even if traditional organizational models are destroyed and organizations can't centralize their PR/voice, a facet of an organization can be the multiplicity of its voices. Even with a future where organizational functions will b e disrupted by the dissolution of central communications, Arnold's model is still relevant. Arnold's analysis is an analysis about human sociality, not human history. Unless that dissolution fundamentally alters human nature... |
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> | The rituals of the classroom--the music, the lively debate, Eben’s knowledge and war stories, the crowded office hours where students spill out into the hallway-- reinforce Eben's goals. The wiki gives us room for free thought, and a place for more structured work. We can work on its construction and reroute the pipelines if we so please, or with little effort as to the how, we can just participate in this entirely collaborative exercise. |
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> | The open letter to P. Moglen talk page is a good indication of organization in the face of decentralized communication. Eben in Amsterda, art writes the letter. the class commentators get in on it and start shitting on parts of the class or defending Eben. The benevolent monarch is forced to response-- publicly. |
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< | I think my point was that the institutions we belong to define how we think about ourselves and the world, and that changes in institutional culture can thus yield substantive change for the better/towards justice. Law is the ultimate institution. I want to use my time in law school to learn as much as I possibly can and to learn how to use my license to effectively operate within and against institutions. I want to use that license in a way so that I might be given the responsibility of managing institutions as well. I want to make things more efficient and more just and I kind of wanted this paper to be a little pledge to myself. |
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remaining sections could come together more effectively. Arnold's
analysis of the way in which organizations are held together is still |
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> | Arnold's analysis of the way in which organizations are held together is still |
| | appropriate, as you show. His understanding of organizational
psychology captured much that would later become so overwhelming as
to be (as you show) invisible, because he explicated mechanisms that |