Beyond Individualism: The Organic Dynamics of Digital Sociability and the Guild Model
(2024) N2 2024 The Noosphere Global South — Location: UM6P, Ben Guerir, Moroco (16.December.2024)
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- This talk explores the tension between digital technology’s role in fostering individualism and its potential to enable new forms of collective life. While phenomena such as hikikomori and rising social anxieties support fears of digital isolation, emerging studies on online and hybrid communities challenge this perspective. Drawing on the concept of “guilds,” historically rooted in mutual aid and collaboration, the talk examines their digital resurgence as models for organizing collective life across online and offline domains. Additionally, it considers the rise of hybrid communities involving humans, bots, and AI, which reconfigure traditional notions of sociability. The discussion posits a shift from "digital natives" to "digital autochthons," inhabitants of a new digital-human ecology, offering insights into the evolution of collective identity and social organization in the 21st century.
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Servais, O. (2024). Beyond Individualism: The Organic Dynamics of Digital Sociability and the Guild Model. N2 2024 The Noosphere Global South, UM6P, Ben Guerir, Moroco. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236028