S02E31 - Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics

Thomas Swann brings together the rich tradition of anarchist
self-organization with Stafford Beers Viable System Model.


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Shownotes


Thomas Swann at Loughborough University:


https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/about/people/thomas-swann/


Swann, Thomas. 2020. Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and
Communication in Radical Politics. Bristol University Press.:


https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anarchist-cybernetics


Parker, Martin, Konstantin Stoborod, Thomas Swann. 2020.
Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for
Students. Routledge London.:


https://www.routledge.com/Anarchism-Organization-and-Management-Critical-Perspectives-for-Students/Parker-Stoborod-Swann/p/book/9781138044111


Swann, Thomas. 2018. Towards an anarchist cybernetics: Stafford
Beer, self-organisation and radical social movements. Ephemera
Journal: theory & politics in organization, 18(4). [PDF
available]:


http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/towards-anarchist-cybernetics-stafford-beer-self-organisation-and-radical-social


General Intellect Unit Podcast – Episode 079 - Anarchist
Cybernetics, Part 1:


http://generalintellectunit.net/e/079-anarchist-cybernetics-part-1/


 


Further Shownotes:


Occupy Wallstreet Movement:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street


Indignados Movement in Spain:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Spain


Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon


Colin Ward:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Ward


Stafford Beer at Monoskop:


https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer


Viable System Model (VSM):


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model


The VMS Guide:


https://vsmg.lrc.org.uk/screen.php?page=0cybeyes


"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford
Beer [audio]:


https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819


"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford
Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]:


https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2up


Norbert Wiener at Monoskop:


https://monoskop.org/Norbert_Wiener


Wiener, Norbert. 2019. Cybernetics or Control and Communication
in the Animal and the Machine. MIT Press. [PDF available]:


https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Wiener_Norbert_1948_Cybernetics.pdf


Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic revolutionaries: technology and
politics in Allende's Chile. MIT Press.:


https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries


Allenna Leonard:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenna_Leonard


van Duijn, Roel. 1972. Message of a wise Kabouter. London:
Duckworth.:


https://libcom.org/article/message-wise-kabouter-roel-van-duijn


Gordon Pask:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask


Claude Shannon:


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon


Loomio:


https://www.loomio.com/


Jitsi Meet:


https://meet.jit.si/


Framapad:


https://framapad.org/abc/


Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics


[German] S02E07 | Simon Schaupp zu Technopolitik von unten:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e07-simon-schaupp-zu-technopolitik-von-unten/


S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/


[German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/


S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of
Platforms & Red Futurism:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/


[German] S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler
Demokratie:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/


S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/


 


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Episode Keywords:


#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast,
#JanGroos, #Interview, #ThomasSwann, #Anarchism,
#Self-Organization, #Cybernetics, #Autonomy,
#CentralControlStructure, #Decentralisation,
#OrganizationalCybernetics, #WorkerCoopertives, #Activism,
#AnarchistCybernetics, #Platforms, #StaffordBeer,
#ViableSystemModel,