ABSTRACT
To conclude we would like to locate our account of complexity and global social movement within some of the wider theoretical stakes associated with complexity theory, having demonstrated that the AGM is a social expression of complexity. As such, we build on David Byrne’s concluding conclusion that whilst complex-based social science can inform social action such rational knowledge cannot be determinate due to agency. His hope that the agency in question be that of ‘free-citizens’ acting as a ‘perturbative force which chooses the future’ (1998: 167) is embodied within the AGM. As we have argued the commitment to open processes within the AGM maximises the operation of weak ties, a key step in socially ‘engineering’ plateaux optimising the potential for ‘free-acts’. Taken together the totality of such free acts constitutes the AGM as a particularly dense strange attractor enunciating the other worlds that are possible.
