Introducing Mobile Power and Guerrilla Politics

Abstract

This introductory chapter reveals highlights the need to reveal new mobile technologies as dynamic forces profoundly influencing contemporary power and the possibility of present day revolution.. It combines, in this respect, cutting edge theories of power and post-human theory with in-depth empirical explorations of actually existing examples of guerrilla democracy. A key aspect of its originality, in this regard, is linking economic and political movements, revealing their productive tensions and potential points of solidarity. Emerging from this investigation we hope is a new theory of 21st century “guerrilla democracy”, which will help extend understanding of contemporary politics and movements across disciplinary and practice lines. Concretely, it reflects the creative and disruptive ways these mobile technologies and newly politicised subjects merge to create a novel subjectivity, a post-human counter-hegemony to challenge entrenched power regimes both politically and economically. In this respect, it seeks to refocus radicalism into a revolutionary guerrilla politics that can resist infectious dominant discourses and foster contagious revolutionary alternatives for reimagining, reordering, reconnecting, resituating, rematerialising, and resolidifying the world according to viral and perpetually expanding “commons” based values and practices.