Control
The organizational mode — inherited from Emanationist cosmology — that constitutes power as emanating from an interior source (a divine right, a brand, a blood or soil, a transcendent sovereign), thereby mystifying the relational and networked nature of all power. A Control Organization is composed of two parts: a protocol (the set of repeated behaviors and cultural codes that make up coordinated action) and a ban — the mystified withholding or hoarding of access to the relational elements that animate the protocol.
Control depends not primarily on explicit violence but on a magical a priori: a rhetoric employing allusions to supernatural or unreal forces (white supremacy, divine right, brand soul) to ends of mystification. The administrative elite functions like a priest class, shuffling papers and metaphysical presumptions. Members are less complicit than complacent — seduced by the comfort of hierarchical necessity, the perceived safety of withdrawal from the broader field of relations.
Control is ultimately parasitic: it can only manage external resources, as none are genuinely its own. “Exteriority penetrates the interior all the way through — the withdrawal is always a facade.” (— FRIENDS of the OUTSIDE) The Emanationist mode is also described as “interiorization” or “enclosure” — keeping people from direct access to the generative power of networks.
The antidotes to Control are: decentralization (suspending the ban), substrates (permissionless networks of reciprocity), and DAOs (which structurally cannot maintain the mystical ban). The DAO form, through ragequit, forks, and audits, represents “the death of the ban” (— FRIENDS of the OUTSIDE) — demystifying interiorization to reveal it as merely an interim strategy rather than a mythos of supremacy.