2021-07-03

• [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

The agorae and assemblies of Ancient Greece could similarly be understood as facilitating forms of [[many-to-many communication]], and doing so in ways that, albeit imperfectly, embody some of the democratic processes common to anarchist and radical politics

• Reading Chapter 2 of [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] I am stoked. It (briefly) mentions [[slime mould]] and [[bird flocks]] as examples of [[self-organisation in nature]]. I studied this kind of thing in [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]]. And it mentions the potential for decentralised [[Political organisation]] afforded by the [[many-to-many communication]] of e.g. [[social media]]. Like [[Free, Fair and Alive]] this book is tying together a lot of my interests in one place.

• [[Architecture of participation]]