Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics,Thomas Swann

-About this book

From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignited a re-emergence of participatory democracy as a political ideal within organizations. This pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies to explore the continuing development of this radical idea. With a focus on communication and how alternative social media platforms present new challenges and opportunities for radical organising, it sheds new light on the concepts of self-organization, consensus decision making, individual autonomy and collective identity. Revolutionising the way in which anarchist activists and theorists think about organizations, this unprecedented investigation makes a major contribution to the larger discussion of direct democracy.

-Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1-2011: The Year Everything Nothing Changed
2-Radical Left Organisation and Networks of Communication
3-Anarchism and Cybernetics: A Missed Opportunity Revisited
4-Control (Part I): Tactics, Strategy and Grand Strategy
5-Control (Part II): Effective Freedom and Collective Autonomy
6-Communication (Part I): Information and Noise in the Age of Social Media
7-Communication (Part II): Building Alternative Social Media
8 Organising Radical Left Populism

Index

-carectéristiques

date de parution :19 octobre 2020

Éditeur : Bristol University Press  

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 190 pages

ISBN-10 : 1529208785

ISBN-13 : 978-1529208788

Poids de l’article : 445 g

Dimensions : 16.51 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm