# Spokes-Council

> Spokes-Council is mapped as the vessel: it structures decision, accountability, succession, learning, resources, and collective identity.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:leadership-organization:spokes-council` |
| Family | Leadership & Organizational Form |
| Domain | Organizations |
| Kind | mechanism |
| Archetypal function | The Vessel |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Spokes-Council belongs to the **Leadership & Organizational Form** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Spokes-Council structures decision, accountability, succession, learning, resources, and collective identity, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Spokes-Council, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Vessel.** Spokes-Council is mapped as the vessel: it structures decision, accountability, succession, learning, resources, and collective identity.

## Gift

turns motivation into durable coordinated capacity; through Spokes-Council, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

centralizes charisma, reproduces hierarchy, or lets process consume purpose; Spokes-Council can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Spokes-Council to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Vessel enters through Spokes-Council. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Spokes-Council becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Spokes-Council; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **amplifies — Leaderless Movement:** Leaderless Movement amplifies Spokes-Council by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **translates into — Democratic Centralism:** Spokes-Council translates into Democratic Centralism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **depends on — Failed Coup:** Failed Coup depends on Spokes-Council by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Rally:** Spokes-Council enables Rally by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Spokes-Council from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Spokes-Council is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Spokes-Council: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Why Civil Resistance Works](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820) — Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, 2011. Comparative study of violent and nonviolent campaigns, with scope and coding limits.
- [Civil Rights History Project](https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/) — Library of Congress and Smithsonian, ongoing. Participant accounts of the U.S. civil-rights movement.
- [About Indivisible](https://indivisible.org/about) — Indivisible, 2026. Organization self-description and distributed organizing model.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
