Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics

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 Thomas Swann. Electronic Reproduction. New York Available Via World Wide Web.