- 190 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Series Preface by Professor Daniel King and Professor Martin Parker
- 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
- References
- Index