Background  In the wake of the 2007–2008 financial crisis in Iceland, some citizens believed the calamity was the outcome of a cultural of secrecy among the political and financial elites.Analysis  By examining an effort to legislate for a “data haven” in Iceland, this article discusses a shift in how data activists attempted to achieve data justice. This shift challenges existing ideas about cyberlibertarian and technoliberal approaches to social change. In attempting to address the inequalities inherent to the centralization of data and the internet, data activists moved away from advocacy and adopted two previously rejected strategies: formal political organizing and territorial authority.Conclusion and implications  Activism for data equity was insufficient to counter existing data power in Iceland. What comes after technoliberalism? Contexte  Suivant la crise financière de 2007-2008 en Islande, certains citoyens se mirent à penser que ce désastre était le résultat d’une culture du secret parmi les élites politiques et financières du pays.Analyse  Par l’examen d’efforts pour légiférer un « havre de données » en Islande, cet article discute d’un changement dans la manière dont des militants ont tenté d’établir un accès plus juste aux données. Ce changement pose un défi à des idées courantes prônant une approche cyberlibertaire et technolibérale envers le changement social. Les militants, en tentant de s’adresser aux inégalités inhérentes à la centralisation des données et d’internet, se sont éloignés du plaidoyer pour adopter deux stratégies rejetées antérieurement : l’organisation politique formelle et l’autorité territoriale.Conclusion et implications  Le militantisme pour l’égalité des données s’est avéré insuffisant pour démocratiser le contrôle des données en Islande. Dans ces circonstances, qu’est-ce qui pourrait suivre au technolibéralisme?

The rise of populist ethnonationalistmovements – and the breakdown of global liberal cosmopolitanism – caught most political analysts and theorists by surprise. This article takes this failure of political expertise as a challenge to reconsider radical Left approaches in making sense of political turmoil, economic crises, and class. Specifically, this article examines two key Marxian concepts, class and crisis, in relation to chaos. The authors argue that political expertise fails because the infinite velocities of chaos cannot be indefinitely contained categorically for three reasons: (1) because chaos understood as unpredictability is a property inherent to reality; (2) because there is no Archimedean point from outside of being in the world to objectively observe the world; and (3) because observing the world is always linked to intervening in it, a process through which the observer and the observed are both changed. To this end, the authors seek to augment crisis and class as concepts with a capacity to capture the nonlinear ways in which existing class struggle has developed across space and over time. To capture these complexities, the authors develop dadascience, a scientific apparatus of constant abandonment designed to account for determinations in relation to indeterminacy.

Nine papers with respective replies, grounded in Marxist traditions, analyse the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of the far Right worldwide. Papers variously take up new lines of analysis, while also identifying and theorizing strategies and possibilities for increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. Authors are drawn variously from Australia, Britain, Canada, Cyprus, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Slovenia, and the United States. They comprise new scholars as well as established and leading theorists and activists. Collectively, the papers address three predominant themes: the changing and expanding conceptualization on the Left of contemporary capitalism; what it means to speak of ‘the people’ in relation to political action today; and approaches to mobilizing and organizing that people. The wide-ranging but focused and rigorous insights produced across the pieces are aimed at speaking to scholars, students, observers, and activists who seek knowledge about the challenges and opportunities the Left faces today.

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