heterarchy

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My concern is this: Bringing the hidden connectors into the light by, for instance, labelling them as the heterarchy might result in them being herded into just another box, and told to sort it out - to end up as just another committee.

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  1. Government by an alien or aliens; foreign rule. Also, erroneously, eterarchy. [Rare.] It is a joy to think we have a king of our owne. Our owne blood, our owne religion; according to the motto of our princes (Ich Dien): otherwise, next to anarchy is eterarchy. Bp. Hall, Christ and Cæsar.

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  • My concern is this: Bringing the hidden connectors into the light by, for instance, labelling them as the heterarchy might result in them being herded into just another box, and told to sort it out - to end up as just another committee. —  Wirearchy
  • That won't happen by e-mailing alone, just one more challenge thrown up by this new organizational form of heterarchy. —  Wirearchy
  • Hegemony rides again - if it was ever dismounted - after New Labour's much touted dream of replacing hierarchy with heterarchy, government with governance, via involvement, participation, empowerment, citizen-power, place-shaping, localisation and all the other obfuscating jargon used to hustle the populace into believing we inside the big tent. —  The First Post: Latest
  • "heterarchy" and "responsible autonomy". —  P2P Foundation
  • • Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy —  ArchivesBlogs
 

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  1. from Greek ἕτερος, other, different, + ἀρχή, rule.
 

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