Heather Marsh

Heather Marsh is a world-renowned philosopher and human rights activist whose work helped shape and accelerate international events like the 2011 15-M movement in Spain and the subsequent global Occupy Movement. Her views on power and organization, as well as her deep knowledge of global human rights issues, provided the backbone for the transition of the Anonymous collective into a global activist movement. She played a key role in the early stages of Wikileaks by directing the focus of the organization’s supporters onto human rights issues (and she left the organization in early 2012). She is the only person to have played a pivotal role in the formation of the three most influential movements of the last decade, Anonymous, Occupy and Wikileaks. She created or assisted a large number of other local and global movements worldwide, from the formulation of ideas for political movements to the distribution of aid and information for human rights movements. She has delivered keynotes at many global conferences and events and is the only person to have ever had a talk censored by the Oxford Union.

In 2013, Marsh released the internationally acclaimed book, Binding Chaos, which deconstructs our current relationship with governance and the trade economy and offers a new pathway towards self-governance. In Binding Chaos, she explores both idea based and action based mass collaboration. Her hands-on as well as theory-based experience make her the world’s foremost expert in horizontal governance theory.

In 2020, she began publishing the rest of the Binding Chaos series with The Creation of Me, Them and Us. The 12 books in the later series continue the explorations of the original title but at a far more in-depth and comprehensive level. Abstracting Divinity, the much anticipated third installment of the Binding Chaos series, has just been released.