Anti-hierarchical culture in media-based creative collectives: sketching originary analyses

Title: Anti-hierarchical culture in media-based creative collectives: sketching originary analyses
Creator: Matthews, Benjamin
Relation: Anthropoetics Vol. 22, Issue 2
Relation: http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2202/2202matthews/
Publisher: University of California
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: In this paper I employ originary thinking in the analysis of the Enspiral Network, a novel collective organisation, made possible only by virtue of digital communication technology. Its origin was a small group of coworkers in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2010 that grew over time to become an intentionally “horizontally” structured, decentralised organisation governed by its more than 300 participants, working primarily in a variety of social enterprise and creative industries. The organisation is interesting for its capacity to maintain stability in the absence of strong hierarchy by using socio-technical systems that are constructed around digital communication technologies; and in particular, the infrastructure of the internet. The digitally altered scene of culture that has fostered this organisation is a secular one, and as Gans has argued, on the secular scene of culture the sacred centre is implicit
Subject: creative collectives; media-based; anti-hierarchical culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446331
Identifier: uon:42834
Identifier: ISSN:1083-7264
Language: eng
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