To me a feral continent is the network properties of knowledgeI agree entirely, up to the point about infinite regress and there, I'm afraid, you lose me, Doyle. It seems to me that with the network properties of human knowledge being essentially feral, it becomes necessary for the hierarchy to intervene and substitute for that network structure a gated surrogate. Again, no top-down command is necessary to effect such a substitution. As long a preponderance of the people occupying privileged nodes in the hierarchy simply behave to preserve their own positional advantage, the tame network can be imposed.
production. There is value creation of a type that can't be done under
the gatekeeper paradigm.
This is what is meant by a structure of domination. It isn't simply a structure *within which* domination takes place; it is a structure that automatically promotes and rewards dominating behaviours and demotes the free and thus structurally subversive act.
The key to overturning this structure is NOT discursive, although discourse remains indispensible for transmitting the key. The key, if I may introduce an as yet undefined metaphor into this discussion, could best be characterized as rhythmic or harmonic (or perhaps as an interaction of the two -- as "musical").
The Sandwichman
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