The open work

For The People, by The People, Through The People: Community Assemblies – the Way forward
SURVIVAL IS A TEAM GAMElibertyrising.substack.comOpen work or the open work are terms that have been used to refer to work that is seen to be significantly or mainly open as opposed to closed. It overlaps with the concept of open source. Wikipedia, for example, may be seen as open work since many of its pages are open for "anyone" to edit. Human culture itself is in the long term open work, as even if something is not accepted during your own time, it may be later.This leads on to the expansive aesthetic theory at the heart of The Open Work. Crudely put, Eco first describes a fundamental social dialectic in order to more clearly articulate an aesthetic equivalent. Namely: in the same manner that self-aware citizens reluctantly participate in society in view of transforming it, avant-garde artists necessarily engage with formal conventions in view of transforming them. This is as good as it gets, he concludes, and it’s not that bad. Extending from this, the final idea elaborated from The Open Work here is that, in a modern industrial context, rather than focusing on, say, the decoration, representation or fictionalization of reality, progressive contemporary art operates at the level of structure, focusing on the mechanisms by which meaning is produced in a given discipline. Art turns self-conscious, and so self-reflexive.
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* Open world; Help; Sharing; Shared space; Open path; Shared path; Cooperation; Open source; Open society; Open mind; Remix culture; Open book; Open life; Open relationship; Syncretic culture; Heterogenous culture
*Hermeticism; Open spirituality; Synthetic spirituality; Syntheos; Team work; 
*Open house; Open space; Editable; Anyone can; Contribute; Add; Co-authorship; Post-authorship; No author; Anonymous; Anon culture; Fusion culture
* Open culture; Openness; Closedness; Open world game; Open event; Outsideness; Outside; The outside; Interior; Fusionism; Association; Convergence; Convergent effect; Connexion; Nexion;
Nexus; Center; Mix
*Sigil; Chaos; Construction; Swarm writing; Crowd sourcing; Popular culture
*Synthetic culture; Synthetic tradition; Synthesis; Synnetic; Network culture
*Network spirituality; Democracy; Cyberculture; Frontier culture; 
*Fluid society; Fluid politics; Plural society; Pluriculture; Plural culture
*Multiculture; Multi-genesis; Multi-normative