Open Organisations – Toni Prug, Richard Malter and Benjamin Geer – until recently united in belief in radically liberatory potentials of openness | ‘supernodes’ not only route more than their ‘fair share’ of traffic, but actively determine the ‘content’ that traverses them. They do not (necessarily) constitute themselves out of malicious will-to-power: rather through personal qualities like energy, commitment and charisma, and ability to synthesise politically important social moments into identifiable ideas and forms | Crypto-hierarchies suppress individual contributions, and produce layers of authority contingent on individuals’ intellectual or social dominance. The inability to question theoretical questions independently leads the individual to take refuge behind authority of another member who becomes, objectively, leader, or behind group entity, which becomes gang.’ | really open org can’t be realised without a prior radicalisation of social-political field in which it operates
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