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Revolutionary organisation theory - if you can hack it.
"open source society"
From the opensource guru Eric Raymond.
Recall that these are the people behind Linux and Android.
Culture hacking, reloaded
. . .
The organizers (Dan Mezick & Andre Dhondt) and various friends (now including me) are launching from agile software development into new ways of organizing work and communication that dynamite a lot of common assumptions about the necessity of power relationships and hierarchies. What makes this really interesting is not the theory but the working examples. They’re not dealing in vague platitudes, but in methods that can be taught and replicated. (And yes, I will describe some of them later in this post.)
Nobody in this crowd thinks politically (or at least if they do, it doesn’t show); it’s all framed as ways to fix corporate cultures to make them more productive and happier. But what this was, underneath occasional freshets of vaguely new-agey language, was a three-day workshop in practical anarchy.
. . .
We may yet succeed in culture-hacking not just individual institutions but society as a whole into something saner, kinder, less hierarchical, and more productive on all levels. It’s worth a good hard try, anyway.
"open source society"
From the opensource guru Eric Raymond.
Recall that these are the people behind Linux and Android.
Culture hacking, reloaded
. . .
The organizers (Dan Mezick & Andre Dhondt) and various friends (now including me) are launching from agile software development into new ways of organizing work and communication that dynamite a lot of common assumptions about the necessity of power relationships and hierarchies. What makes this really interesting is not the theory but the working examples. They’re not dealing in vague platitudes, but in methods that can be taught and replicated. (And yes, I will describe some of them later in this post.)
Nobody in this crowd thinks politically (or at least if they do, it doesn’t show); it’s all framed as ways to fix corporate cultures to make them more productive and happier. But what this was, underneath occasional freshets of vaguely new-agey language, was a three-day workshop in practical anarchy.
. . .
We may yet succeed in culture-hacking not just individual institutions but society as a whole into something saner, kinder, less hierarchical, and more productive on all levels. It’s worth a good hard try, anyway.
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