We like to think of the great living work as if it were an artist, a very particular artist whose consciousness is not that of a real and palpable individual, but rather the indivisible result of a myriad of individuals. Each of them, as if they were neurons, infinitesimally interact with each other in ways that we cannot even imagine, to mysteriously produce a result. And so this “artist”, a strange mixture of the objective of the technological and the subjective of the social, makes decisions, is wrong or right, and goes on with his “life”, creating a strange art collection along the way.
But can these “neuro-individuals” without a well-defined hierarchy, achieve results and avoid nihilism?

The cooperative anarchism that occurred in Spain almost in the middle of the last century can be taken as a more than interesting experience that tells us about the effectiveness that can be achieved through administrative horizontalism and the joint work of individuals without a vertical hierarchical order. Its significance worldwide is due to the fact that it has been one of the only historical moments in which anarchism has been able to develop its ideas on a large scale. Perhaps its brief existence, due to its fall in the face of the fascist/communist clash that promptly interrupted the experiment, does not leave us enough information to make conclusive statements.
But at least we can guess how great was the surprise that certain sectors of society may have experienced when they “recovered” the factories that had fallen at the hands of anarchism. A “devastated area” was clearly expected, a mixture of low production, poor accounting and lack of organization that would certify in front of everyone the unfeasibility of leaving individuals free to be, to work managing their means of production and their results.
Great was the surprise to find that many of the enterprises showed a solid organization with productions that far exceeded, for example, those of the same factories in capitalist times, leaving a bitter taste in more than one palate.
Without getting into the field of politics since it is not our interest, this brief historical moment allows us to embrace the idea, perhaps naive, of thinking that the decentralization that is being proposed through this collective art, the idea of ​​leaving the greater number of possible decisions in the hands of a community, to think of a kind of “collective conscience” contributes to breaking certain stigmas, such as the one that leads us to think that man can only be the wolf of man.