{"title":"The Spread of Viral Politics","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduced the significance of virality for deepening our understanding of social ordering and hegemony both fundamentally and as specific to the contemporary period. It highlighted the existence of “viral logics” as representative of the capacity of a dominant discourse to spread across contexts. To a certain extent, virality is a foundational dimension to any and all social orders and forms of hegemonic domination. However, it has become especially prescient in this time of greater mobile organisation, where the emphasis is less on controlling territories or conforming populations and more on shaping and forming hegemonic networks and connections. In our viral times it is, hence, not a question of whether or not different and new worlds will be created. The very mobility of power and the virality of modern life make this not only inevitable but a defining feature of our existence. The real question, rather, is what type of mobile and viral worlds will emerge? More precisely, will we be exposed to the infection of more contagious capitalism or can we build our resistances to this viral discourse in the name of spreading a new revolutionary contagion?","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129154764","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}
{"title":"Organic Leadership for Liquid Times","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter we started to consider seriously how it might be possible to find durable relations of solidarity between various disparate groups to the extent that an impactful guerrilla democracy would be possible. It is here that we introduced our account of organic leadership. This type of leadership, drawing on Gramsci, acknowledged the necessity of rooting struggle in the particular, embodied and historically situated experiences of people within their communities (work, residential or otherwise) - which highlights the vital nature of cultivating and curating rich forms of knowledge and intellectual capacity. The leadership required of levelling upwards and outwards from such localised communities is moral and organic, one that never loses its symbiotic connection to community but that is capable of offering direction to a broader sphere of influence. Such leadership can of course be enabled by an appealing leader-figure but reliance on such figures is at best fleeting and at worst destructive. Rather, we need to be more imaginative about the digital forms in which we connect and build. Such an ethos and praxis would, in turn, foster “revolutionary resolidifications” for concretely cultivating and experimenting with new emancipatory forms of existence in a seemingly unchangeable and amorphous liquid capitalist world.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121391953","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}
{"title":"Mobile Organizing in the 21st Century","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.12","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter focuses on the fundamental and increasing mobility of power and virality of order. In particular, it has sought to highlight the infectious character of hegemonic discourses and their wider epidemic threat. By contrast, it revealed the possibilities of building up glocal resistances to these dominant infectious discourses and ultimately even contagious alternatives that can spread into revolutionary pandemics. Crucial, in this respect, is the challenging and evolution of social innovation for disruptive forms of political creation - ones which materialise and solidify new possibilities for a more egalitarian, free, and “commons” based existence locally and globally.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126050396","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}
{"title":"Guerrilla Democracy","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v","url":null,"abstract":"This book explores the potential of digital technologies to revolutionise political and economic organizing. To do so, it introduces the new concepts of mobile power and viral hegemony, revealing a new type of domination centred on flexibility, adaptability, and managed innovation. It reveals how neoliberalism draws its strength from the (im)material labour of contemporary subjects to adapt their diverse material and digital contexts to best reflect its capitalist ideologies. Required to counter these “infectious” hegemonic discourses is a radical guerrilla democratic politics which creatively disrupts the status quo in order to concretely reimagine the social and radically reconnect those within it. Emerging is a technologically sophisticated guerrilla democracy in which people can create the conditions for large scale progressive insurrections from the bottom up, opening up previously closed spaces and topics, while fostering a new “commons sense” for reordering and rematerialising our contemporary existence.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129099479","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}
{"title":"Radical (Im)materialism","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explored the (im)material dimensions of mobile power, viral hegemony, and guerrilla democracy. To do so it drew upon theories of “new materialism” but ultimately expanded upon them so as to better account the immaterial and political aspects of social ordering. It introduced, for this reason, a novel concept of “(im)materialism” which highlighted the immaterial necessity to continually and dynamically “materialize” and “rematerialize” the social. Significantly, this is not to assume in the slightest that humans are “in control” or the complete “shapers” of their material realities – whether in the virtual or physical realms. Rather, it stresses how these material encounters are manifestations of mobile power and viral hegemony, whereby they must constantly adapt existing materials and their various concrete affordances to meet the demands of infectious discourses. Likewise, this dynamic process of (im)material socialisation can also lend itself to political interventions whereby an existent order is not just “rematerialised” but “resituated”. A core theme of this book is that this radical (im)materialism can be best expressed through a democratic guerrilla politics.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127013347","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}
{"title":"Introducing Mobile Power and Guerrilla Politics","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.5","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114491972","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}
{"title":"Mobile Power","authors":"P. Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h1v.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduced one of the central concepts of the book – “mobile power” and “remobilising power”. We argue that regimes of power draw their strength from their ability to be adaptable to a range of diverse contexts. More precisely, it must be constantly “remobilised” to flexibly accommodate a wide range of cultural and historical circumstances. This draws on an emerging understanding of power as not simply repressive or productive but instead dynamic and customisable. Yet the argument of this book takes these insights one step further. The contention is that power – encompassing dominant ideologies, practices, and actors – requires and is often at its most potent when it transforms people and places into “host subjects” and “problem-solvers” to innovatively adapt these discourses to their specific situation and context.","PeriodicalId":351547,"journal":{"name":"Guerrilla Democracy","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132259643","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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