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Now, the essence of civil society is that it should be non-hierarchic, but it transpires that there are leaders - securely established, for their names come up again and again under the above rubric who always lead "civil society" and to whom deference is due.
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The Anarchist U follows the tradition of free schools in that it is open, non-hierarchic and questions the roles of teachers and students.
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They're a completely non-hierarchic segmentary society, like primitive hunter/gatherers, but with a highly evolved culture.
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We are, structurally, a non-hierarchic organisation.
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #5 1990
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Web to refer to the alternate horizontal open structure of info - exchange, the non-hierarchic network, and reserve the term counter-Net to indicate clandestine illegal and rebellious use of the Web, including actual data-piracy and other forms of leeching off the Net itself.
home 2009
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Web to refer to the alternate horizontal open structure of info - exchange, the non-hierarchic network, and reserve the term counter-Net to indicate clandestine illegal and rebellious use of the Web, including actual data-piracy and other forms of leeching off the Net itself.
home 2009
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Again, there are positive parallels: "networking" as an alternative to politics is practiced at many levels of society, and non-hierarchic organization has attained popularity even outside the anarchist movement, simply because it works.
home 2009
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Of course the Web also involves non-computerized networks of exchange such as samizdat, the black market, etc. -- but the full potential of non-hierarchic information networking logically leads to the computer as the tool par excellence.
home 2009
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Of course the Web also involves non-computerized networks of exchange such as samizdat, the black market, etc. -- but the full potential of non-hierarchic information networking logically leads to the computer as the tool par excellence.
home 2009
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Other transactions are open to all -- so the Net has a horizontal or non-hierarchic aspect as well.
home 2009
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