NETWORKS, HIERARCHIES AND THE MODERN GLOBAL UNREST
Keywords:
networks, hierarchies, the modern global unrestAbstract
The paper seeks to make a contribution towards a better understanding of the current global political unrest. It argues that this unrest reflects ongoing tensions between hierarchies and networks. In contrast to many current approaches, the paper argues that the source of this conflict in not in the perceived ontological opposition between hierarchical and non-hierarchical interactions. Rather, it is rooted in the paradigm of the Enlightenment that continues to dominate our civilization and that is based a very limited view of reality. This paradigm excludes the process of construction from its frame of vision. The resolution of the conflict between networks and hierarchies requires that our civilization should transcend the paradigm of the Enlightenment and advance a new vision that would be centrally focused on the process of construction. This process should be the main organizing principle for the new social practice outlined in the paper.
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