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Do Not Research - Super Secret Syllabus v.2022 - Spring
> 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.
**The Californian Ideology**
"Heterogenous orthodoxy for the coming information age"
> [!Info]- Week 1
> ### **Read**
> [The Californian Ideology (1995)](http://www.comune.torino.it/gioart/big/bigguest/riflessioni/californian_engl.pdf)
> Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
> [!info]- Week 2
> ### **Read**
> From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006)
> Fred Turner
> Introduction
> (pages 1-9)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Keynote: From Counter-culture to Cyberculture (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Py_P1_cHUE)
> Fred Turner
> Haus de Kulturen der Welt
> 42 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 3
> ### **Read**
> From Counter-Culture to Cyberculture (2006)
> Fred Turner
> Chapter 1: The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
> (pages 10-39)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [The Politics of Interactivity in Cold War America (2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3gzCPTt2w)
> Fred Turner
> MIT Architecture
> 34 min. runtime (Q&A only. Begin at — 49:58)
> [!Info]- Week 4
> ### **Read**
> From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006)
> Fred Turner
> Chapter 4: Taking the Whole Earth Digital
> (pages 103-140)
**Moralism**
"But doesn't a sick society call for a sick art?"
> [!Info]- Week 5
> ### **Read**
> [Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/)
> Mark Fisher
> Open Democracy
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Cyberspace-time Crisis (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjtUZm5960)
> Mark Fisher
> Studium General
> 45 min. runtime (Q&A only. begin at — 1:04:40)
> [!Info]- Week 6
> ### **Read**
> [Art Won't Save Us (2018)](https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/03/art-wont-save-us/)
> Anna Khachiyan
> SF MoMA: Heavy Machinery
>
> The Art We Deserve (2019)
> Dean Kissick
> Spike Art Magazine
> [!Info]- Week 7
> ### **Watch**
> Society (1992)
> Brian Yuzna
> 98 min. runtime
**What is a platform?**
"The digital economy is becoming a hegemonic model."
> [!Info]- Week 8
> ### **Read**
> Platform Capitalism (2016)
> Nick Srnicek
> Introduction, Chapter 1: The Long Downturn + 2: Platform Capitalism
> (pages 1-64)
> [!Info]- Week 9
> ### **Read**
> Platform Capitalism (2016)
> Nick Srnicek
> Chapter 2: Platform Capitalism + 3: Great Platform Wars
> (pages 64-129)
> [!Info]- Week 10
> ### **Watch**
> [About Platform Capitalism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxT59mXDLDI)
> Nick Srnicek
> Ars Industrialis
> 39 min. runtime
>
> ### **Assignment**
> Create an over-hyphenated speculative scenario based on the themes of the book. Pair this label with an image. Or further describe it with a short paragraph.
> ex: “Coercive Monopolistic Rentierism”
> “Asset-price Keynesianism”
**Be careful what you wish for**
"Memes create a rough alternative to representative democracy"
> [!Info]- Week 11
> ### **Read**
> Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983)
> Villem Flusser
> Chapter 8: The Photographic Universe
> (pages 65-75)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Television Image and Political Space (1990)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFTaY2u4NvI)
> Vilem Flusser
> Kunsthalle Mucsarnok
> 24 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 12
> ### **Read**
> [Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? (2013)](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/186886/metahaven-can-jokes-bring-down-governments-memes-design-and-politics)
> Metahaven
> Chapter 3 + 4
> (pages 30-61)
>
> ### **Watch**
> [You Can't Kill Meme (2021)](https://www.altavod.com/content/you-cant-kill-meme)
> Hayley Garrigus
> 78 min. runtime
**Additional Materials**
"Building on themes discussed this semester"
> [!Info]- Week ∞
> ### **Read**
> [On Compression (2007)](https://ahd-3903-a.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cory-Arcangel-OnC.pdf)
> Cory Arcangel
>
> [Dispersion (2002)](http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion2007.comp.pdf)
> Seth Price
>
> [Trust x SSSC: Combination Games (1983)](https://trustsupport.notion.site/PORTAL-READINGS-Super-Secret-Sleeper-Cell-617381da96814bb395e12310e6fadb10)
> Selections by Joanna Pope
>
> ["#Alt-Woke Manifesto (2017)"](https://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/)
> Anon
> The New Centre for Research & Practice
>
> ### **Watch**
> [mmm today I'm 16 and I wanna become political (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmvMyptrxo)
> Aszmea
> 1 min. runtime
>
> [Paxman vs Russell Brand - BBC Newsnight (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk)
> 11 min. runtime
>
> Gamer (2009)
> Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
> 95 min. runtime
>
> [Holly Herndon - Home [Official Video] (2009)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3mCDJ_iWc)
> Metahaven
> 6 min. runtime
>
> [Do Not Research at Odd Café](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UDa1aL28rU)
> 28 min. runtime
>
> [Contemporary Art, Neoliberal Enforcer (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQjEBaJh5g)
> Suhail Malik
> Goldsmiths Art
> 123 min. runtime (up to — 1:23:30, end at Q&A.)
>
> ++ Special thanks to @dommiesquad for restoring the audio on Cyberspace-time Crisis
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### **References**
[Syllabus: DoNotResearch, 2022-- spring | Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/syllabus-2022-60837268)
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