Against Self-Organization

This blogpost by Steven Shaviro is well worth reading and discussing.

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=756

Shaviro begins with a review of Peter Ward's The Medea Hypothesis, which argues that "life on earth is doomed" due to positive feedback mechanisms driving seemingly self-regulating systems to unsustainable extremes, and he moves toward a more generic critique of autopoiesis by way of a heuristic comparison between neoliberal faith in the market and anarchistic faith in antagonistic forms of self-organization, that is, between Goldman Sachs and anti-WTO protestors in Seattle. He ends his post by proposing an "aesthetics of decision": "What we need is an aesthetics of decision, instead of our current metaphysics of emergence [...] and we cannot characterize decision in 'voluntaristic' terms [...]".

Implications for self-organized pedagogy, and Nonsite's organization more generally?