Exploring nature ("Trees" by Myoung Ho Lee) and structure (installations by Esther Stocker).
posted on Nov 28, 2007 - View this thread

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

[T]o 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. A “laissez faire” group is about as realistic as a “laissez faire” society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can so easily be established because the idea of “structurelessness” does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones. . . . Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women’s movement it is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not).

Web 2.0 (2nd draft) A short film by Kansas State Cultural Anthropology Professor Mike Welsh. Find out what happens when content and structure finally break-up and structure gets a place of its own.
posted on Feb 4, 2007 - View this thread

Being and Seeming: the Technology of Representation an essay by novelist Richard Powers
posted on Sep 24, 2006 - View this thread

Flaubert on Structural Unity. "I’ve just read 'Pickwick' by Dickens. Do you know it? Some bits are magnificent; but what a defective structure! All English writers are like that. Walter Scott apart, they lack composition. This is intolerable for us Latins". Extracts from the letters of Flaubert (via the very awesome book coolie)
posted on Jul 29, 2005 - View this thread

E-mail reveals real leaders. Analysis of email headers can reveal a companies true internal structure and point to informal leaders.
posted on Mar 23, 2003 - View this thread