MetaFilter posts tagged with structure

Inside outside

klangklangston — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:07:18 -0800

Exploring nature ("Trees" by Myoung Ho Lee) and structure (installations by Esther Stocker).

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

jason's_planet — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:56:33 -0800

[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 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Toekneesan — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:51:38 -0800

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.

Being and Seeming: the Technology of Representation

MetaMonkey — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:20:53 -0800

Being and Seeming: the Technology of Representation an essay by novelist Richard Powers

Flaubert on Structural Unity

matteo — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:56:23 -0800

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)

WhoTheBoss

srboisvert — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:35:05 -0800

E-mail reveals real leaders. Analysis of email headers can reveal a companies true internal structure and point to informal leaders.