The Revolt of The Public

and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

Martin Gurri

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STRIPE PRESS
01 March 2019

Politics & government; Demonstrations & protest movements

How insurgencies — enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere — have mobilised millions of ordinary people around the world.

In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilised millions of ordinary people around the world.

Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organising principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.

By: Martin Gurri
Imprint: STRIPE PRESS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm,
ISBN: 9781732265141
ISBN 10: 1732265143
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PRELUDE TO A TURBULENT AGE HODER AND WAEL GHONIM MY THESIS WHAT THE PUBLIC IS NOT PHASE CHANGE 2011 A CRISIS OF AUTHORITY THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT NIHILISM AND DEMOCRACY CHOICES AND SYSTEMS FINALE FOR SKEPTICS RECONSIDERATIONS: TRUMP, BREXIT, AND FAREWELL TO ALL THAT

Martin Gurri is a geopolitical analyst and student of new media and information effects. He spent many years working in the corner of the CIA dedicated to the analysis of open media. From that privileged perch, he watched the global information landscape undergo a transformation so radical as to seem unprecedented in the history of our species. After leaving government, Gurri focused his research on the motive forces powering this transformation. The result of this labor is The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, first published in digital form in 2014 and republished in 2018. He lives in Virginia.

Reviews for The Revolt of The Public: and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my No. 1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the internet. -Marc Andreessen, cofounder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: Can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the public? -Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center, professor of politics and human rights at Bard College