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Joshua Citarella - Artists After the Internet II - v.2021 Spring
> This course is adapted from an Independent Study which expands on the topics introduced in “Artists After the Internet”. Assignments focus on recent left political theory, popular cinema, cyberpunk, automation, speculative futures and how the world didn’t stop after 1989. Some of these materials may not be freely available online.
**Capitalist Realism**
"Is There No Alternative"
> [!Info]- Week 1
> ### Read
> The End of History (1989)
> Francis Fukuyama, The National Interest
>
> [Capitalist Realism (2009)](https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf)
> Mark Fisher
> chapters 1-3 (pages 1-20)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Children of Men (2006)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o)
> Alfonso Cuaron
> 109:00 runtime
> [!Info]- Week 2
> ### **Read**
> [Capitalist Realism (2009)](https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf)
> Mark Fisher
> chapters 4-6 (pages 21-53)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [No Time (2011)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bk0kkRPmjE)
> Mark Fisher, University of Warwick
> 36:14 runtime
> [!Info]- Week 3
> ### **Read**
> [Capitalist Realism (2009)](https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf)
> Mark Fisher
> Chapters 7-9 (pages 54-81)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [The Hunt (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowGYbxTPgU)
> Craig Zobel
> 90:00 runtime
**Inventing the Future**
"Post-Capitalism and a World Without Work"
> [!Info]- Week 4
> ### **Read**
> [Inventing the Future (2015)](https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/16935/1/SRNICEK%20and%20Williams%20(2015)%20%27Inventing%20the%20Future%27.pdf)
> Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
> Introduction + chapter 1 (pages 0-24)
> [!Info]- Week 5
> ### **Read**
> [Inventing the Future (2015)](https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/16935/1/SRNICEK%20and%20Williams%20(2015)%20%27Inventing%20the%20Future%27.pdf)
> Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
> Chapter 2 (pages 25-50) + chapter 4 (pages 69-84)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [About Platform Capitalism ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxT59mXDLDI)
> Nick Srnicek
> 38:58 runtime
> [!Info]- Week 6
> ### **Read**
> [Inventing the Future (2015)](https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/16935/1/SRNICEK%20and%20Williams%20(2015)%20%27Inventing%20the%20Future%27.pdf)
> Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
> chapter 6 (pages 107-128)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Star Trek: First Contact (1996)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/)
> Jonathan Frakes
> 111:00 runtime
> [!Info]- Week 7
> ### **Read**
> [Inventing the Future (2015)](https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/16935/1/SRNICEK%20and%20Williams%20(2015)%20%27Inventing%20the%20Future%27.pdf)
> Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
> Chapter 8 + Conclusion (pages 155-183)
**Four Futures**
"Life After Capitalism"
> [!Info]- Week 8
> ### **Read**
> [Four Futures (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures)
> Peter Frase, Verso Books
> Introduction (pages 1-35)
> [!Info]- Week 9
> ### **Read**
> [Four Futures (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures)
> Peter Frase, Verso Books
> Chapter 1 (pages 35-68)
> [!Info]- Week 10
> ### **Read**
> [Four Futures (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures)
> Peter Frase, Verso Books
> Chapter 2 (pages 69-90)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [In Time (2011)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/)
> Andrew Niccol
> 109:00 runtime
> [!Info]- Week 11
> ### **Read**
> [Four Futures (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures)
> Peter Frase, Verso Books
> Chapter 3 (pages 91-119)
> [!Info]- Week 12
> ### **Read**
> [Four Futures (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures)
> Peter Frase, Verso Books
> Chapter 4 + conclusion (pages 120-143)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [An American Utopia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVKoX40ZAo)
> Fredric Jameson
> from 9:01 - 59:37 (50:36 runtime)
Additional Materials
"More in depth material from authors & themes discussed this semester."
> [!Info]- Week ∞
> An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army (2016)
> Fredric Jameson, Verso
>
> Listen Liberal (2016)
> Thomas Frank, Picador
>
> The People’s Republic of Walmart (2019)
> Leigh Phillips, Verso
>
> ### **Watch**
> The Road (2009)
> John Hillcoat
> 111:00 runtime
>
> The Congress (2013)
> Ari Folman
> 122:00 runtime
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[Syllabus: Artists After the Internet v.2020-1 | Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/syllabus-artists-40605633)
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