# 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]]