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This means that to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an “objective” news story, “value-free” social science, or a “free” economy.
Jo Freeman • The Tyranny of Stucturelessness
famous statement of that finding came from the feminist writer Jo Freeman, who in her 1972 essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” observed that when groups operate on vague or anarchic terms, structurelessness “becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others.”
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Free citizens must be able to choose how they want to live, and equal citizens must have the same power to shape the law as everyone else. Both types of freedom have inherent value, in addition to their instrumental value in protecting one another.
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not ... See more
Jo Freeman • The Tyranny of Stucturelessness
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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
