Comments on: The intellectual heritage and foundation to #OccupyWallStreet: the Madagascar connection https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intellectual-heritage-and-foundation-to-occupywallstreet-the-madagascar-connection/2011/11/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Øyvind Holmstad https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intellectual-heritage-and-foundation-to-occupywallstreet-the-madagascar-connection/2011/11/03/comment-page-1#comment-486641 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:22:10 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=20600#comment-486641 “The process is what scholars of anarchism call “direct action.” For example, instead of petitioning the government to build a well, members of a community might simply build it themselves. It is an example of anarchism’s philosophy, or what Mr. Graeber describes as “democracy without a government.””

This can also be described as self-organization: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111101/frontiers-of-design-science

Still, for self-organization to work it’s fundamental to use and understand the technology of life: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111017/the-living-technology-of-christopher-alexander

And a living technology needs to be guided by patterns and pattern languages: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111007/the-pattern-technology-of-christopher-alexander

Read more: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/author/nikos

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