Anarchist CyberneticsPub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0001
Thomas Swann
{"title":"2011: The Year Everything Nothing Changed","authors":"Thomas Swann","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter One introduces the connections between anarchism and cybernetics against the backdrop of what will be referred to throughout the book as the 2011 uprisings (Occupy, the Arab Spring, 15M/Indignados, the UK riots). The chapter highlights the apparent role of leaderless self-organisation in these uprisings and the perceived use of social media as an organising tool therein. It is argued that the examples of the 2011 uprisings show that there is a need for an in-depth understanding of how self-organisation and social media-backed organisation can and do operate.","PeriodicalId":210561,"journal":{"name":"Anarchist Cybernetics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124428256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anarchist CyberneticsPub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0006
Thomas Swann
{"title":"Communication (Part I): Information and Noise in the Age of Social Media","authors":"Thomas Swann","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter Six focuses on communication practices and social media, examining how the concept of noise features in how cybernetics understands communication and information. The chapter considers how certain communication practice are more prone to problems concerning noise, linking this discussion to the experiences of the Spanish 15M protests where activists highlighted different forms of noise in communication practices. The chapter points towards ‘pink noise’ as a form of noise in networks that is conducive to self-organisation. As well as making an argument for a reappraisal of how we think about noise in relation to social and digital media, the chapter suggests that the concept of ‘pink noise’ can be a constructive contribution to how activists organise around online platforms. Rather that aiming to eliminate noise from communication, the introduction of the notion of ‘pink noise’ shows how that a more nuanced position can be developed that is conducive to the self-organisation at the heart of anarchist cybernetics.","PeriodicalId":210561,"journal":{"name":"Anarchist Cybernetics","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129103317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anarchist CyberneticsPub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0003
Thomas Swann
{"title":"Anarchism and Cybernetics: A Missed Opportunity Revisited","authors":"Thomas Swann","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529208788.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter Three provides a historical and conceptual overview of both anarchism and cybernetics, focusing on recent developments in anarchist social movement practice and Stafford Beer’s organisational cybernetics respectively. The chapter argues that the core cybernetic principles of complexity, control and autonomy, understood through the overarching idea of self-organisation, can help elaborate a detailed understanding of anarchist organisation. To do so, the chapter develops Beer’s Viable System Model for anarchist social movement organising and uses the example of Occupy to show how the functional hierarchy of Beer’s model can be applied to forms of organisation that are typically understood as rejecting hierarchy. The chapter builds on an important article written by John D. McEwan to show how functional roles in an organisation can be realised on structurally non-hierarchical ways that reinforce the radically democratic and participatory practices of anarchism.","PeriodicalId":210561,"journal":{"name":"Anarchist Cybernetics","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133317203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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