Anarchist cybernetics : control and communication in radical politics / Thomas Swann.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Swann, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Series:Organizations and Activism.
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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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