Definitions
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- noun organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union)
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Examples
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And constraints imposed "from above" by universal principles of phenotypic form and self-organisation – that is, through the minimum energy expenditure, shortest paths, optimal packing and so on, down to the morphology and structure of organisms.
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In other words, these ballets in the sky are the automatic expression of simple acts of self-organisation.
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Qualifier: the ‘thing’ in question is built using openness, participation and self-organisation.
Boing Boing 2008
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Associations can either tap into that, facilitating self-organisation that benefits the association, or can ignore it.
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But the most significant and influential thinker of self-organisation in the past century was undoubtedly Friedrich Hayek, the intellectual progenitor of neoliberalism.
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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But the most significant and influential thinker of self-organisation in the past century was undoubtedly Friedrich Hayek, the intellectual progenitor of neoliberalism.
Self-organisation & rule-following Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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A BarCamp is supposedly all about self-organisation, which meant that if you wanted to go here and give a lecture, you could.
Blogfest in Urbino Torill 2008
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A BarCamp is supposedly all about self-organisation, which meant that if you wanted to go here and give a lecture, you could.
Archive 2008-10-01 Torill 2008
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Should the recession turn into a depression, the capacity to motivate people into constructive self-organisation and collective action can make the difference between survival and catastrophe.
Archive 2008-11-01 Noni Mausa 2008
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Strengthen the voice of rural South Africans, empower poor communities and build the momentum behind agrarian change and land reform by supporting the self-organisation of rural people; working together with progressive movements and organisations and building forums and structures through which rural people can articulate their demands and interests.
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