Dave Young - Consent to Print Outline

group processes

• Who owns the computer? Technical convenience / social decision?
• What sources were suggested for the content?
• How did the group editorialise the content?
• At which points were there disagreements?
• Ask about individual agreements to specific decisions.
• Are all members of the group satisfied with what has been produced?
• If they had to follow the brief individually, what would have been different?

notes for short talk on hierarchical systems

Hierarchy is a social system of assumed consent. In a traditional hierarchy (eg military), the assumption of consent travels upwards through the ranks.

__Army__
Marshall
   ^
Colonel
   ^
Major
   ^
Lieutenant
   ^
Sergeant
   ^
Corporal
   ^
Private

If consent can no longer be *assumed*, then the hierarchy breaks down.

decentralisation / power

• How can power be disguised/anonymised in a flat hierarchy?
• How can this be used as a tactic to retain control?

Discipline: obedience/consent through fear/paranoia of discipline Control: obedience/consent through the manipulation of the will of a person