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Consensus in a liberal-democratic society is — and all will always be — the expression of a hegemony and the crystallization of power relations.

Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox
 
This evokes for me Wikipedia’s emergent, ostensibly anarchistic but in actuality crypto-oligarchic decision-making process Consensus. (via varanine)

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