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crowds 4–6, 84, 249, 264–5 absorption in 64–5 amplification ofcourage 34 and class struggle 14–22 as collective being 9 collective intelligence 11 under communicative capitalism 28 conceptions of6–14 democratic reading 6–7, 8, 9–13 demographics 18–19 density 215 destructiveness 122 direction 215–16 dynamics 8, 214–16 effects 8 emergence 120–1 energy 120–6 freedom ofaction 4 Freud’s account of100–5, 105–12 and individuality 64–6 influencing 99 Le Bon’s account of66, 93–7, 101–5, 114 limitation 258 majority rule 214–15 mental unity of96 Michels’s analysis 172–3, 182, 184–5 missing capacity 182 networked 65 political 117–18 and political expression 7 political subjectivity 115–16 political vitality 7–8 politicization 145 politics 14–22 power 95–6, 258 primary characteristic 9 primitive 14 Ross’s account of139–43 rupture with the state 145–6 sea metaphor 127–8 subject-effects 259 theories of8–9, 11–14 and transference 184–5 transformative dimension 104–5 unconscious 99, 113, 214 violent 118–20
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