Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century
Peter Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, and Jamie Woodcock
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 ... More
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.
Keywords:
Power,
Hegemony,
Technology,
Organizing,
Guerrilla,
Democracy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781529205619 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529205619.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Peter Bloom, author
University of Essex
Owain Smolović Jones, author
Open University
Jamie Woodcock, author
Open University
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