Nine hundred people committing suicide in one place at the same time would appear to be a ‘highly organised’ occurrence (Jonestown Guyana, November 18, 1978).  On the other hand, it is ‘organisation’ that is somehow different than the organisation we see in the fall where the northern skies are filled with birds, flying southward, in formation.

I would say that ‘organisation’ differs by whether it is ‘grounded’ in what’s going on in the space it is included in, or not; i.e. whether the organisation concerns only ‘what thing do’ or whether it comprehends, at the same time, the dynamic relations of things and the dynamics of the space they are included in.

For example, when groups of people organise, it is often due to their ‘knowledge’ so that the organising  is internally driven from out of the individual organisms.  This sort of organisation  is ‘ungrounded’ in the dynamics of space in which it is included.

Consider three groups of people who come together at the same place and at the same time, but at different times for each of the three groups. (more…)