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And yet the ultimate irony of the Geffen building is that its doctrine of a rigorously nonhierarchical museum, giving visitors absolute freedom to discover their own connections, is strenuously inflexible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“In some ways, I think we might be described as nonhierarchical, but we don’t describe ourselves as such internally,” said Annette Dhami, who works in organizing and governance at Dark Matter Labs.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

But Barber’s vision of the SBC is small-d democratic, and nonhierarchical.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

The Davids demolish the Hobbesian narrative by pointing to complex, agricultural societies—in Asia, the Middle East and the Americas—that governed themselves in nonhierarchical ways.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

Dark, cynical, morbid cyberpunk that I am, I cannot avoid considering some of the darker implications of "decentralized, nonhierarchical, locally empowered" networking.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce