The Reticular Society

The Reticular Society theorizes the online colonization of everyday life, diagramming capitalist society’s network form while searching for the means of abolishing it.

As capitalism’s circuits of exploitation and domination invade each dimension of lived reality—integrating, isolating, and impoverishing all of what has been captured—The Reticular Society draws upon the thought of Guy Debord and the Situationist International in order to arm readers with the conceptual and creative artillery needed to tear open holes in our networked world. Each of the book’s chapters sharpens the critical understanding of the waves of calculation and computation which sweep over the present in hopes of contributing to the insurgent project of dismantling and destituting their totalizing grip on life.

List of contents

Introduction
I. Separation Reticulated
II. A Pixelated Spectacle
III. Individual & Informatic life
IV. Producing Control
V. The Life & Death of Networks
VI. Difference & Data
VII. Recognizing Domination
VIII. Graphing Insurgency
IX. Horizons of Revolt
Afterword

About the author

Ian Alan Paul is a theorist whose work engages with technopolitics and anarchist thought. He lives in Barcelona.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Alan Paul, Ian Alan Paul
• Assisted by: Serene Richards (Introduction)
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 17.03.2026
• EAN: 9798887441801
• ISBN: 979-8-88744-180-1
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Capitalism, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Economic systems & structures, Anarchism