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**Do Not Research - Super Secret Syllabus - v2021 - Fall**
> This syllabus is drawn from materials discussed in the DNR reading group, videos reviewed on the Twitch stream and films screened in the Discord. It is a crash course into some foundational ideas combined with a selection of recent links. Coursework is portioned out to ~90 minutes a week over a 12 week semester.
**Chemicals in the Water**
"Things don't have to be ideologically 'pure' to be a resource."
> [!Info]- Week 1
> ### Watch
> [Das Netz: Unabomber, LSD und Internet (2003)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU)
> Lutz Dammbeck
> 114 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 2
> ### **Read**
> Xenofeminism (2018)
> Helen Hester
> Introduction + Chapter 1
> (pages 1-32)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [The Terraforming -- Keynote (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fnG9iA5RA)
> Helen Hester
> Strelka Institute
> 29 min. runtime
>
> [!Info]- Week 3
> ### **Read**
> Xenofeminism (2018)
> Helen Hester
> Chapter 2
> (pages 33-69)
>
> ### **Listen**
> [Xenofeminism w/ Helen Hester](https://soundcloud.com/joshuacitarella/xenofeminism-w-helen-hester)
> 42 min. runtime
**The Long Tail**
"Millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream"
> [!Info]- Week 4
> ### **Watch**
> We Live in Public (2009)
> Ondi Timoner
> 91 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 5
> ### Read
> [The Long Tail (2004)](https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/)
> Chris Anderson
> Wired Magazine
>
> ### Assignment
> bring 1 example of "the long tail" (the weirder the better) and select 1 quote from the text.
>
> ### Watch
> [From the Sovereign Individual to the Targeted Individual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvUmmBJUJg)
> Daniel Keller
> 18 min. runtime
**WTF is Neoliberalism?**
"Freedom's just another word"
> [!Info]- Week 6
> ### **Watch**
> [If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)](https://docuseek2.com/bf-if)
> Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
> 85 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 7
> ### **Read**
> A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2007)
> David Harvey
> Introduction + Chapter 1
> (pages 1-38)
> [!Info]- Week 8
> ### Watch
> [A History of Neoliberalism (1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=deDw_P0WGAU) + A History of Neoliberalism (2) + [Anti-Capitalist Chronicle](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWvnUfModHP_GhiICpi4fESiEqjIX_oCG) + [Blackstone](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQyx6mX9qMzEgFWaz9o_Ofa1pVTMf_CpA)
> David Harvey
> 52 min. runtime
**Futurites**
"Is there no alternative?"
> [!Info]- Week 9
> ### **Read**
> The Revenge of the Real
> Benjamin Bratton
> Preface + Chapters 1-3
> (pages 1-32)
>
> ### **Listen**
> [NM Pod 38: Universal Basic Planetary Services Pt. 1](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-38-universal-basic-planetary-services-benjamin-bratton/id1399619562?i=1000529242825)
> New Models w/ Benjamin Bratton
> 58 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 10
> ### **Read**
> [Agamben WTF, or How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic](https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5125-agamben-wtf-or-how-philosophy-failed-the-pandemic)
> Benjamin Bratton
> Verso
>
> The Revenge of the Real
> Benjamin Bratton
> Chapter 4
> (pages 33-40)
> [!Info]- Week 11
> ### **Watch**
> Rat Film (2016)
> Theo Anthony
> 82 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 12
> ### **Read**
> [The "Anarcho-Liberal"](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-anarcho-liberal/)
> Bhaskar Sunkara
> Dissent
>
> ### **Listen**
> [Choose Your Future (2021)](http://joshuacitarella.com/chooseyourfuture/)
> Joshua Citarella
> KW Digital: Open Secret
> 26 min. runtime
**Additional Materials**
"Building on the themes discussed this semester"
> [!Info]- Week ∞
> ### **Read**
> [Vibe Shift](https://www.8ball.report/p/vibe-shift) + [Pilled • Scene (2021)](https://www.8ball.report/p/pilled-scene)
> Sean Monahan
>
> [Losing Yourself in the Dark (2021)](https://opensecret.kw-berlin.de/essays/losing-yourself-in-the-dark/)
> Caroline Busta
> KW Digital: Open Secret
> -
> ### Listen
> [Do Not Research: Xenoestrogens](https://soundcloud.com/joshuacitarella/do-not-research-xenoestrogens)
> 118 min. runtime
>
> [Chemicals in the Water w/ Dorian Electra](https://soundcloud.com/joshuacitarella/chemicals-in-the-water-w-dorian-electra)
> 53 min. runtime
> -
> ### Watch
> [The Day Facebook Ruined the Internet (2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007785730/facebook-news-feed-zuckerberg.html?smid=url-share)
> Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
> 8 min. runtime
>
> [My Dad the Facebook Addict (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2AtLh2mjNI)
> Dylan LeVine, Lexi Pappas
> 10 min. runtime
>
> [Replacement Theory: How Memes Rendered Commercial Art Obsolete (2021)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/replacement-how-54789414)
> Brad Troemel
> 26 min. runtime
>
> [Zeitgeist (2007)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ylCs-xm54) + [Zeitgeist: Addendum (2021)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnXu-IXeM0)
> Peter Joseph
> 118 min. runtime
>
> [Do you see what I see? | Controversial Conspiracy Theorist Artist David Dees (2021)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hgzkLGFLe8)
> Brad Abrahams
> 12 min. runtime
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### **References**
https://www.patreon.com/posts/syllabus-2021-55272566
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