Welcome to a space where people from different generations and political histories are sharing ideas and experiences with the aim of reinventing democracy in a context where traditional forms of democracy are exhausted.

Some of us are from the movements of the late 60s and 70s, aware that our ideas at that time became in part against our intention resources for the renewal of capitalism but at the same time we are insistent that these movements, feminism especially, generated an unrealised potential towards rethinking politics.

Some of us are shaped by intense involvement in the movements unleashed in Seattle and continuing into the 21^st century, aware that our activism is merely the surface expression of a far deeper popular disaffection for which we have not yet found the cultural tools to reach or the sufficiently innovative ways to organise.

Some of us are from political parties, believing in the need to engage with institutional politics but fully aware, against the traditional assumptions of left politics, that parties can only be one actor amongst many and indeed the very nature of a party needs to be radically rethought.

And most of us try to make transformative values part of the way we live, the way we work, the way we organise. We try to pre-figure our vision of a different world in present-day experiments in new systems of collaboration and creativity. We aim to make this project exactly such an experiment.

Networked Politics is a contribution to the continuing debates and practical experiments concerning new forms of political organisation. It is purpose is to help the activists who act in movements, collectives, associations, parties, trade unions to develop a deeper understanding of the innovations of which we are all a part.

The discussion is pursued along four interrelated lines of inquiry. These examine social movements, including their development of new forms of knowledge and organisation; progressive political parties, and attempts to bring about transformative forms of political representation; the dangers and opportunities facing the development of political institutions in a network society; and the potential of new techno-political tools for facilitating and reconceiving political organisation.

The Networked Politics research process started around 2006 and since then it has been carried out by the collaboration of diverse organisational nodes and individuals around the planet working on related issues. In the process several seminars were celebrated (Bologna, Manchester, Barcelona and Berlin). The reflections were produced in several publications. We also have online instruments to support our collaboration, like this web tool and the E-list). The research is open to participation for people or groups interested in discussing and contributing to networked politics.

More: Visit the section that presents the seminars and publications by Networked Politics