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Syllabus

Collectively sourced by the interviewees and interviewer.

Art and Imagination

https://onbeing.org/programs/adrienne-maree-brown-on-radical-imagination-and-moving-towards-life/. Brown, Adrienne Maree. ‘On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life,’ On Being Podcast, 3 July 2024.

Noorizadeh, Bahar. After Scarcity [Single channel video, 31:51 minutes], 2018. https://kadist.org/work/after-scarcity/.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRm39aH8APXVqjzKYptz7-NQ-3AAXNVrgcjm9oBMOec/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z0500e4podv3. Springett, Jay. Worldrunning.guide: A Speculative Document about Worlding Worlds, and Running Them, self-published, 2024.

Catlow, Ruth, and Penny Rafferty (eds). Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts, Liverpool: Torque Editions, 2022.

https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/hackathon-black-swan-the-communes/. ‘Black Swan: The Communes,’ Hackathon at KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, 27-29 August 2021.

https://www.kw-berlin.de/files/REALTY_Penny_Rafferty_EN.pdf. Rafferty, Penny. ‘A Speculative White Paper on the Aesthetics of a Black Swan World,’ REALTY, Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2018.

https://www.cccb.org/en/activities/file/the-influencers-2018/229575.. Omsk Social Club presentation about Real Game Play at The Influencers festival 2018.

Myers, Rhea. Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021, London: Urbanomic in association with Furtherfield, 2022.

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/plot-work-as-an-artistic-praxis-in-todays-cityscapes/. de Vries, Patricia. Plot Work as an Artistic Praxis in Today’s Cityscapes: An Introduction to the Lectorate Art & Spatial Praxis / the City, Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academy, 2022.

Activism and technology

https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1231. Lovink, Geert. ‘Principles of Stacktivism,’ TripleC 18.2 (2020) pp. 716-724.

Stalder, Felix. Digital Solidarity, London: Mute, 2013.

Miessen, Markus. The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality), London: Sternberg Press, 2010.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971349. Mouffe, Chantal. ‘Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?’ Social Research 66.3 (Fall 1999) pp. 745-758.

The Invisible Committee. Now, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.

Klein, Naomi. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.

https://dark.fi/manifesto.html. Anonymous. The Coming Storm (The DarkFi Manifesto), DarkFi, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XNSvXlk8U. Ethereum Foundation. ‘Crypto for Activism by Micah White & Amir Taaki (Devcon5),’ YouTube video, 7 December 2019.

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-neganthropocene/. Stiegler, Bernard. The Neganthropocene, London: Open Humanities Press, 2018.

https://base.socioeco.org/docs/accountingforplanetarysurvival_def.pdf. Bauwens, Michel, and Alex Pazaitis. P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival, P2P Foundation, 2019.

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-2-overcoming-the-hype/. ECSA. ‘On Intensive Self-Issuance: Economic Space Agency and the Space Platform,’ in Inte Gloerich, Geert Lovink, and Patricia de Vries (eds), MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018.

https://hackmd.io/@exeuntdoteth/Hku0b5xyJg. Exeunt. ‘OMG: Toward an Open Mutualism,’ HackMD, 18 October 2024.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/governable-spaces/paper. Schneider, Nathan. Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014.

https://anarchiving.thesphere.as/?fragment=37. The Sphere. Digital Soul-Searching, 2024.

https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q. Kreutler, Kei. ‘A Prehistory of DAOs: Cooperatives, Gaming Guilds, and the Networks to Come,’ Gnosis Guild, 21 July 2021.

Horowitz, S. Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up, New York: Random House, 2021.

https://www.makhzin.org/issues/dictationship/the-total-work-of-the-cultural-institution. Khalili, Yazan. ‘The Total Work of the Cultural Institution,’ Makhzin 3, 2020.

O’Dwyer, Rachel. Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, London: Verso, 2023.

https://thequestionoffunding.com/How-can-Dayra-allow-us-to-make-use-of-existing-local-resources-1. ‘Dayra, or How to Circulate Communal Economic Value?’ Question of Funding, n.d.

Blockchain criticism

https://thenew.institute/en/media/seed-phrase/jaya-klara-brekke. Brekke, Jaya Klara, and Simon Denny. ‘02 Jaya Klara Brekke’s Third Way of Crypto Criticism,’ Seed Phrase Podcast, 20 September 2022.

https://aksioma.org/structures-of-belonging. Zeilinger, Martin. Structures of Belonging, Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 2023.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/76/69732/if-you-don-t-have-bread-eat-art-contemporary-art-and-derivative-fascisms/. Steyerl, Hito. ‘If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascism.’ e-flux Journal 76 (October 2016).

Dávila, Joshua. Blockchain Radicals - How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix it, London: Repeater, 2023

https://aprja.net/article/download/140448/184384. Gloerich, Inte. ‘Towards DAOs of Difference: Reading Blockchain Through the Decolonial Thought of Sylvia Wynter.’ A Peer-Reviewed Journal About: Minor Tech 12.1 (2023).

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/category/podcast/. The Blockchain Socialist Podcast, 2020-....

DAO technology and governance

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide. Buterin, Vitalik. ‘DAOs, DACs, DAs, and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide,’ Ethereum Foundation Blog, 6 May 2014.

Ferrari, V., F. Idelberger, A. Leiter, M. Mannan, M.C. Valiente, and B. Bodó (eds), Log Out_. A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization_, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2023.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i-1379644274. Buterin, Vitalik. ‘Bootstrapping a Decentralised Autonomous Corporation: Part 1,’ Bitcoin Magazine, 19 September 2013.

Voshmgir, Shermin. Token Economy: DAOs and Purpose-Driven Tokens, Token Kitchen, 2024.

https://lawofthelevel.lexblogplatformthree.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/187/2017/07/WhitePaper-1.pdf. Jentzsch, Christoph. ‘Decentralize Autonomous Organizations to Automate Governance,’ working paper that introduces The DAO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4GSIUpi9WM. Token Engineering Academy. ‘Reward Systems – Governauts(TE Academy),’ YouTube video, 10 September 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAO2704W8g. RnDAO. ‘Classic Governance Dilemmas in the Context of DAOs with Eric Alston,’ YouTube video, 26 January 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903tHM4RA9k. Bankless. ‘33 – Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani and Kevin Owocki,’ YouTube video, 5 October 2020.

https://www.daoleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/So-Youve-Got-A-DAO-2.0-The-Big-DAO-Fail-Expose-Grace-Rachmany.pdf. Rachmany, Grace. So… You’ve Got a DAO: Handbook for Distributed and Connected Leadership, DAO Leadership, 2024.