Anarchist Cybernetics
eBook - ePub

Anarchist Cybernetics

Control and Communication in Radical Politics

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Anarchist Cybernetics

Control and Communication in Radical Politics

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.

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Yes, you can access Anarchist Cybernetics by Swann, Thomas,Thomas Swann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politik & Internationale Beziehungen & Organizational Behavior. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the Author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Series Preface by Professor Daniel King and Professor Martin Parker
  9. 1 2011: The Year Everything Nothing Changed
  10. 2 Radical Left Organisation and Networks of Communication
  11. 3 Anarchism and Cybernetics: A Missed Opportunity Revisited
  12. 4 Control (Part I): Tactics, Strategy and Grand Strategy
  13. 5 Control (Part II): Effective Freedom and Collective Autonomy
  14. 6 Communication (Part I): Information and Noise in the Age of Social Media
  15. 7 Communication (Part II): Building Alternative Social Media
  16. 8 Organising Radical Left Populism
  17. References
  18. Index