Plurarchy
Description
Antonio Blanco-Gracia:
"Plurarchy was first defined by Alexander Bard and Jan Soderqvist as a political structure different from Capitalism that the Internet is promoting: “a system in which every individual player decides over him or himself, but lacks the ability and opportunity to decide over any of the other players. The fundamental notion of democracy, whereby the majority decides over the minority when difference of opinion occur, is therefore impossible” (Bard and Soderqvist,2002: 72). But in the context in which minorities can leave the network in order to build their own if consensus is not reached, plurarchy is somehow the abundance effect in decision-making: states the peerness of the members of the community, and minimizes the decisions to be made - through consensus, not voting - to those in which scarcity is not artificial: “nobody can filter anybody, everybody can do, say and publish what they want without subtracting from the opportunities for other’s expression, and the ‘decisions’ are seldom a clear yes or no, but usually ‘more or less’” (Ugarte, 2016). For X-Net, plurarchy is in fact how actual democratic organizational structures look: “Fight and let fight [...] a new democratic model does not consist in union, in agreeing in everything [...] Democracy is to create structures that cooperate in the difference” (Levi, 2014)