ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the expressed motives and emergent structures through which the members of L'Internationale have come to work together. It speaks to an "unspoken ambivalence" between conviviality and governance. The chapter acknowledges that institutions tend to suck up the desires but do not always produce the spaces that can enable these feelings to form more attachments and spread. It considers whether the contradictory tendencies can be organized relationally so that people can collectively produce something that is not confined to the master code of control and command. Conviviality is not without antagonism. It does not aim for cosy consensus. Conviviality and governance are rarely articulated in tandem. Conviviality has the association of desirous openness. By contrast, governance assumes a sclerotic and reactionary force of containment. The nexus between conviviality and governance is a reminder that the work of keeping an institution together cannot be done in either a formal constitution or an informal network alone.
