Adam Greenfield calls the assembly a [[Technology of permanent recourse]]: > But as far as I'm concerned, the assembly remains the technology of permanent recourse par excellence. It is always there in potential, any time more than two or three of us of us gather – a set of possibilities that remains available whenever we need to discuss matters of common concern and decide together what to do about them. If the Long Emergency is always something that first confronts us in our immediate physical surroundings, any effort at building up shelter from degree zero will necessarily involve something along these lines. Our fate will turn on a small-scale, politics of deliberation conducted among neighbours, based on the capacity to assess, propose, debate, and decide. --- Source: [[Lifehouse]]