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Throughout
the years new diagrams have appeared as solutions
or threats to existing ones. Bureaucracy and
hierarchy are diagrams; networks are too. In recent
decades the primary conflict between organizational
designs has been between hierarchies and networks,
an asymmetrical war exemplified most starkly in the
war against terrorism. But what happens when "the
powers that be" evolve from centralized hierarchies
into networked power? For Alex Galloway in the
future we are likely to experience a general shift
downward into a new bilateral organizational
conflict-networks fighting networks.
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