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> 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 14 week semester.
**Accelerate the Contraditions**
"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
> [!Info]- Week 1
> ### **Read**
> Zeros + Ones (1997)
> Sadie Plant
> (pages 5-32) Ada — Gambling on the Future
>
> Zero to One (2014)
> Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
> (pages 5-17) The Challenge of the Future — Mania
> [!Info]- Week 2
> ### **Read**
> Zeros + Ones (1997)
> Sadie Plant
> (pages 244-256) Mutants — Casting off
>
> Zero to One (2014)
> Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
> (pages 140-151) Man and Machine
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Seduced & Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World (1994)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doL9mRMEUGw&feature=youtu.be)
> Sadie Plant
> ICA London
> 44 min. runtime (up to — 29:00, end at Q&A.)
> [!Info]- Week 3
> ### **Read**
> [Terminator vs Avatar (2012)
](https://markfisherreblog.tumblr.com/post/32522465887/terminator-vs-avatar-notes-on-accelerationism)
> Mark Fisher
>
> [Shelter Against Communism (2021)](https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/workplace/430312/shelter-against-communism)
> Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek
> e-Flux Architecture
>
> ### **Watch**
> [u/akira (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_P89hoZsk)
> 2 min. runtime
**Utopian Imagination**
"... abolish the market by means of the market itself."
> [!Info]- Week 4
> ### **Watch**
> [David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go? (2014)](https://vimeo.com/112197123)
> David Graeber & Peter Thiel
> The Baffler
> 103 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 5
> ### **Scroll**
> [Building The Eternal City: Praxis (2021)](https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=771&q=building+the+enternal+city+praxis+solbruh+x+twitter&cvid=d0777273842f404d93a980ce1b82317e&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQ6wcYQNIBCDk3OTVqMGoxqAIAsAIA&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=ASTS)
> Solbrah -- Thread Deleted find archive
>
> ### **Read**
> [You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult. Here's How (2014)](https://www.wired.com/2014/09/run-startup-like-cult-heres/)
> Peter Thiel
> Wired Magazine
> [!Info]- Week 6
> ### **Read**
> [Wal-Mart as Utopia (2016)](https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2774-fredric-jameson-wal-mart-as-utopia)
> Fredric Jameson
> Verso Books
**Composability**
"Squads have existed for thousands of years"
> [!Info]- Week 7
> ### **Read**
> [A Prehistory of DAOs (2021)](https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q)
> Kei Kreutler
> Gnosis Guild
>
> ### **Watch**
[When Guys Turn 20: DKP is Market Socialism (2022)](https://dis.art/dkp-is-market-socialism)
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
6 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 8
> ### **Read**
> [Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses (2021)](https://trust.support/feed/moving-castles)
> GVN908 & Arthur Roing Baer
> Trust
>
> ### **Watch**
> [A Prehistory of DAOs (2021)
](https://vimeo.com/637505710)
> Kei Kreutler
> LisCon
> 20 min. runtime
**Return of the State**
"iPhone, Venezuela, bottom text"
> [!Info]- Week 9
> ### **Read**
> The Entrepreneurial State (2013)
> Mariana Mazzucato
> (pages 14-35)
> Introduction: Do Something Different — Chapter 1: From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovation
>
> ### **Watch**
> [Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths (1990)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoAwNZoS8o)
> Mariana Mazzucato & Stewart Brand
> Long Now Foundation
> 102 min. runtime (Q&A only. begin at — 1:10:00)
> [!Info]- Week 10
> ### **Read**
> The Entrepreneurial State (2013)
> Mariana Mazzucato
> (pages 81-101)
> Chapter 5: The State Behind the iPhone
>
> ### **Scroll**
> https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1190210441022234624?s=20&t=EjOfj_Kz58X1wsqa5aPymA
> source: Mazzucato, p. 109, Fig. 13
>
> ### **Watch**
> [The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUQgvhxMQOQ)
> Mariana Mazzucato & Paul Mason
> UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
**There is an Alternative**
"20th century economic experiments"
> [!Info]- Week 11
> ### **Read**
> After Capitalism (2002)
> David Schweickart
> (pages 1-24)
> Chapter 1: Counterproject, Successor-System, Revolution
>
> ### **Watch**
> [You Wasted a Good Crisis (2018)](https://dis.art/a-good-crisis)
> Dis
> 4 min. runtime
> [!info]- Week 12
> ### **Read**
> After Capitalism (2002)
> David Schweickart
> (pages 25-44)
> Chapter 2: Justifying Capitalism
>
> ### **Watch**
> [You, The World and I (2010)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_U8KcBBWw)
> Jon Rafman
> 6 min. runtime
> [!Info]- Week 13
> ### **Read**
> After Capitalism (2002)
> David Schweickart
> (pages 45-84)
> Chapter 3: Economic Democracy: What It Is
> [!Info]- Week 14
> Play
> [Half Earth Socialism (2002)](https://play.half.earth/)
> Francis Tseng, Son La Pham
> Trust
**Additional Materials**
"Building on the themes discussed this semester"
> [!Info]- Week ∞
> ### **Read**
> [Soulbound (2022)](https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/01/26/soulbound.html) + [Alt Article](https://nftplazas.com/vitalik-buterin-proposes-soulbound-nfts/)
> Vitalik Buterin
>
> [Founder of 8chan, Now He Wants to Take it Offline (2019)](https://jacobin.com/2021/04/fredrick-brennan-8chan-internet-4chan-qanon)
> Fredrick Brennan & Bhaskar Sunkara
> Jacobin
>
> ### **Watch**
> [After Capitalism: Where Do We Want to Go? How Might We Get There? (2017) ](https://vimeo.com/236459165)
> David Schweickart
> The Havens Center
> 87 min. runtime
>
> [guy in vr talks about their worst day as a soldier (2020)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXZECAe094)
> Syrmor
> 21 min. runtime
>
> [Serious Games (2010)](https://vimeo.com/370494311)
> Harun Farocki
> 41 min. runtime
>
> [La La La La (Inside An Empty Room My Inspiration Flows) (2021)](https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/nick-vyssotsky-la-la-la-la-inside)
> Nick Vyssotsky
> 3 min. runtime
>
> ### **Listen**
> [Conversations About AI (2022)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-lSYxeE8PE&feature=youtu.be)
> Nick Srnicek & Reza Negarestani
> Impossible Object Books
>
> [After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick (2022)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/after-dark-w-66174851?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare)
> New Models
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### **References**
[Syllabus: DoNotResearch, 2022-- summer | Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/syllabus-2022-67487283)
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