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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Organizations and Activism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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