Organisation-of-the-Organisationless

Organisation of the Organisationless
and coordinate the collective behaviour of parts of
the network-system according to a certain strategic
wager with relatively well-defined ends in sight. 52
This is what those initiatives have done that managed
to break the deadlocks in which some of the networksystems
in question found themselves after the period of
occupations, such as the Plataforma de Afectados por la
Hipoteca and 15MpaRato in Spain, or the Rolling Jubilee
in the United States; or those that induced the creation
of network-systems, such as Movimento Passe Livre
and other groups organising the struggle around public
transport in Brazil. These have successfully combined a
denser, more consistent organising core with relatively
open structures and moments that could involve
a ‘long tail’ of less active nodes in various different
capacities (from crowdsourcing to swarming, from mass
demonstrations to distributed actions), in some cases
attaining a social legitimacy well beyond the ranks of
‘activists’.
‘Care for the whole’ – taking into consideration the
network-system’s development and capacity to act as a
whole, and not of this or that node or cluster within it
– does not entail treating diversity as an absolute value
or seeking lowest common denominators as a way to
avoid divisions. But it creates divisions not by stating a
programme but by creating a practice, and avoids turning
the assertion of divisions into the assertion of identities.
Not everyone needs to back an initiative, although it
requires support proportional to its aims; but what is
backed is not a group or position that exists outside the
strategic wager which the initiative embodies, but the
wager itself. This amounts to occupying the vanguardfunction,
or being a vanguard, without vanguardism.
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