# New societies and old societies

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-12-28-new-societies-and-old-societies

The piece argues that online collectives reorganise social connections without removing hierarchy, marginality, or human limits on maintaining relationships.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 December 2006

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/28/new-societies-and-old-societies/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 28 December 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: internet, collective-action, social-networks, group-identity.

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