Alex Williams is a lecturer in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His work focuses on power, technology, and strategy. He is the co-author of Inventing the Future (with N. Srnicek, 2015) and Hegemony Now (with J. Gilbert, forthcoming).

1. Introduction

2. Complexity from the Sciences to Social Systems

3. Emergence and the Reality of Social Structure

4. Complexity & Political Dynamics

5. Ideologies of Self-Organisation

6. Gramscian Hegemony

7. Post-Structuralist Hegemony

8. Theorising Complex Hegemony

9. The Politics of Complex Hegemony

10. The Complex Hegemony of Neoliberalism

11. Conclusion

Index