The Coalition of Invisible Colleges

Documentation added

2016-11-14T10:50:00+00:00

I have added a Documentation page with instructions on how to get request edit access to the website, and how to edit a page. More documentation will be added with details for adding a college or guild, and or negotiating the boundaries and nomenclature of guilds with other colleges.

Play nice with autonomous squads

2016-11-14T06:55:00+00:00

This video on Spotify’s engineering culture eloquently expresses a vision roughly equivalent to the proposed organizational model of the CIC. However, note the way requirements are slipped into the video—mission statements, quarterly review and negototiation of vision, etc.—it is not described how these decisions will be made or by whom. At the CIC, these questions also enter the flattened negotiational sphere, becoming questions of user interface design, convenience, and accuracy in listing, rather than agreements or disagreements about how others should spend their time. A mere directory, the CIC merely indexes “small, cross-functional, self-organizing teams” (as the video puts it), allowing them to act as autonomous squads in holographic alignment and cooperation with other communities.

Here’s a screenshot from the video:

Here’s another:

And here’s the entire sketch drawn in the video (right click and ‘Open image in new tab’ to zoom in):

CIC Launched!

2016-11-02T23:58:49+00:00

Welcome to the Coalition of Invisible Colleges! On this site you’ll soon find a comprehensive index of various contemporary activist communities, with ways to get involved in many projects ranging from programming distributed cryptocurrency platform development, to building new peer-to-peer online education movements, to performing cutting-edge metaphysical research.