In reply to Harold Jarche » A few good books.

Well ...thanks for the nod, and invitation, Harold. "Archies" are principles in general, I think .. and we can see *hierarchy* operating as the underlying assumption in (say) the world of journalism wherein the status quo, the gatekeepers .. keep arguing for the legitimacy of their editor-led model whilst out here in the cold, many of us know that this is working less and less well ... this is a *hierarchy* offering a top-down approach to informing people about *news* and working very hard to discredit the *bottom up* approach that is growing out of blogs and citizen journalism, which we might arguably call an early form of *wirearchy*.

Or let's take the example of the music industry, in which the *hierarchy* of the current industry is working through lobbying for restrictive digital rights and legislation of DRM is seeking to maintain their hold on *power* ... again, in the face of a bottom-up emergence of new models enabled by an interconnected digital infrastructure of hyperlinks and P2P architecture.

Or .. how about the current challenges to ensconced expertise and *authority* in academe and in pedagogy .. again, similar dynamics. Wikipedia ?

You get my drift, no doubt ... ;-) Have you ever watched the movie Pleasantville ?