Combining cutting edge theories with empirical research, this timely book offers an in-depth analysis of current platform-based radical movements to show how digital technologies revolutionise political and economic organising. This is an invaluable contribution to the emerging literature on the relationship between technology and society.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing Mobile Power and Guerrilla Politics
Chapter 2: Mobile Power
Chapter 3: The Spread of Viral Politics
Chapter 4: Infectious Domination, Contagious Revolutions
Chapter 5: Guerrilla Democracy
Chapter 6: Radical (Im)materialism
Chapter 7: Organic Leadership for Liquid Times
Chapter 8: Mobile Organising in the 21st Century
Peter Bloom heads the People and Organisations Department at the Open University, UK, and is the co-founder of the Research Centre 'REEF'. His books include Digital Control: Surveillance and Power in the Age of Big Data (Pluto, 2019) and The CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life (Zed, 2018). His writing has featured in the Washington Post, Guardian, and New Statesman.