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Anarchist cybernetics : control and communication in radical politics /

Igniting a new field of scholarly inquiry, this pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies to explore the continuing development of the radical idea of participatory democracy within organizations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swann, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Colección:Organizations and Activism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Series page -- Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Organizations and Activism -- 1 2011: The Year Everything Nothing Changed -- The movement of the squares -- Anarchist cybernetics -- Discovering cybernetics -- Overview of the book -- 2 Radical Left Organisation and Networks of Communication -- Anarchism as a theory of organisation -- Self-organisation and democracy -- Intersectional anarchism -- Social media, communication and networks 
505 8 |a Many-to-many communication -- Conclusion -- 3 Anarchism and Cybernetics: A Missed Opportunity Revisited -- One possible history of cybernetics -- Stafford Beer and the radicalisation of cybernetics -- The Viable System Model -- System One -- Primary activities -- System Two -- Coordination -- System Three -- Self-regulation -- System Four -- Awareness -- System Five -- Identity -- Requisite variety, control and self-organisation -- Second-order cybernetics -- Anarchism and cybernetics -- Functional hierarchy -- An anarchist VSM? -- Conclusion -- 4 Control (Part I): Tactics, Strategy and Grand Strategy 
505 8 |a System and metasystem in the VSM -- Tactics and strategy in anarchist politics -- Prefiguration -- Strategy and participation -- Experimentation, flexibility and adaptation -- Grand strategy -- Conclusion -- 5 Control (Part II): Effective Freedom and Collective Autonomy -- Autonomy in organisational cybernetics -- Functional autonomy -- Anarchism and autonomy -- Collective autonomy -- Consensus decision making -- Exclusion -- Conclusion -- 6 Communication (Part I): Information and Noise in the Age of Social Media -- Cybernetics, information theory and communication 
505 8 |a Theorising noise in communication -- Thinking critically about noise -- Gordon Pask's conversation theory -- Pink noise -- Organising noise and communication -- Conclusion -- 7 Communication (Part II): Building Alternative Social Media -- Alternative media -- Four critiques of social media -- Building alternative social media -- Design -- Form -- Existing alternatives -- Conclusion -- 8 Organising Radical Left Populism -- Radical politics since 2011 and the electoral turn -- Anarchism and radical left populism -- Coexistence and hybridity -- A strategic anarchism -- References -- Index 
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