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.
Table of Content
2011: The Year <del>Everything</del> Nothing Changed.
Radical Left Social Movements and Communication Networks
Anarchism and Cybernetics. A Missed Opportunity Revisited
Control Part One ~ Tactics, Strategy and Grand Strategy
Control Part Two ~ The Individual and the Collective. Autonomy Through Organisation
Communication Part One ~ Noise, Overload and Communication in the Age of Social Media
Communication Part Two ~ Building Alternative Social Media from the Ground Up
Anarchist Cybernetics in Practice
About the author
Thomas Swann is Lecturer in Political Theory at Loughborough University.
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