2005

Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

Dawn of the Organised Networks

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue5/lovink_rossiter.html

At first glance the concept of "organised networks" appears oxymoronic. In technical terms, all networks are organised. There are founders, administrators, moderators and active members who all take up roles. Think also back to the early work on cybernetics and the "second order" cybernetics of Bateson and others. Networks consist of mobile relations whose arrangement at any particular time is shaped by the "constitutive outside" of feedback or noise...