Rodrigo Nunes: Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks (2014)

“Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes’ close analysis of network systems demonstrates how organising within contemporary social and political movements exists somewhere between – or beyond – the two. Rather than the party or chaos, the one or the multitude, he discovers a ‘bestiary’ of hybrid organisational forms and practices that render such disjunctives false. The resulting picture shows how social and technical networks can and do facilitate strategic action and fluid distributions of power at the same time. It is by developing the strategic potentials that are already immanent to networks, he argues, that contemporary solutions to the question of organisation can be developed.”

Publisher Mute, London, with Post-Media Lab, Lüneburg, 2014
PML Books series
Anti copyright
ISBN 9781906496753
53 pages

Reviews: Dave Mesing (LA Review of Books, 2014), Clemens Apprich (J Digital Cultures, 2014).

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