non-hierarchical

It's one I've also been asking myself about anarchism after spending some time in late October with the Wall Street Occupiers and being hugely impressed by the moral ambition and relative success of their attempt to live in a humane, voluntary, non-hierarchical way.

Jedediah Purdy: How to Be a Liberal-Conservative-Socialist-Anarchist Jedediah Purdy 2011

Curator Pati Hertling is working with writer Hilton Als as she develops a non-hierarchical, inclusive, performative salon.

Lily Binns: What Is Queer Art? Lily Binns 2011

We are witnessing the birth of a new, sustainable, non-hierarchical, pivotable movement, run by a new generation, with digital tools, capabilities, processes and flexibilities that the analog world -- and its old, corporate and political, guard -- cannot yet process.

Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011

We are witnessing the birth of a new, sustainable, non-hierarchical, pivotable movement, run by a new generation, with digital tools, capabilities, processes and flexibilities that the analog world -- and its old, corporate and political, guard -- cannot yet process.

Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011

We are witnessing the birth of a new, sustainable, non-hierarchical, pivotable movement, run by a new generation, with digital tools, capabilities, processes and flexibilities that the analog world -- and its old, corporate and political, guard -- cannot yet process.

Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011

I hypothesize the most likely explanation is that in both cases the code is written by the most knowledgeable domain experts, working in a non-hierarchical meritocracy (by which I mean that no one tells them what to work on, and that they get accepted as members of the development team by demonstrating their ability over a period of time).

Growth of code complexity | Serendipity 2009

Radically democratic in nature, Occupy Wall Street may or may not produce an artistic movement, but the arts elements that are emerging—poetry, graphic design, theater—suggest that whatever happens there will reflect the non-hierarchical, voice-to-the-majority ethos.

Protesters Hone the Art of a Movement Pia Catton 2011

As a counterexample, he cites his native Sweden, where the social welfare state tried for much of the 20th century to produce a non-hierarchical society, leaving in its wake several solid decades of ho-hum functional buildings.

Making a Mark on Sweden's Landscape J. S. Marcus 2011

I hypothesize the most likely explanation is that in both cases the code is written by the most knowledgeable domain experts, working in a non-hierarchical meritocracy (by which I mean that no one tells them what to work on, and that they get accepted as members of the development team by demonstrating their ability over a period of time).

2009 July | Serendipity 2009

We are witnessing the birth of a new, sustainable, non-hierarchical, pivotable movement, run by a new generation, with digital tools, capabilities, processes and flexibilities that the analog world -- and its old, corporate and political, guard -- cannot yet process.

Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011