Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics

Thomas Swann

doi:10.46692/9781529208801

Anarchist Cybernetics

Control and Communication in Radical Politics

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Thomas Swann, Loughborough University

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781529208801
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529208801

Subjects:: History of Ideas, Organisation Studies, Politics and International Relations, Management

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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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Control and Communication in Radical Politics

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

About the Author
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Series Preface
pp viii-x

1 - 2011: The Year Everything Nothing Changed
pp 1-14

2 - Radical Left Organisation and Networks of Communication
pp 15-34

3 - Anarchism and Cybernetics: A Missed Opportunity Revisited
pp 35-60

4 - Control (Part I): Tactics, Strategy and Grand Strategy
pp 61-80

5 - Control (Part II): Effective Freedom and Collective Autonomy
pp 81-100

6 - Communication (Part I): Information and Noise in the Age of Social Media
pp 101-118

7 - Communication (Part II): Building Alternative Social Media
pp 119-142

8 - Organising Radical Left Populism
pp 143-158

References
pp 159-172

Index
pp 173-179

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