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6/8/24, 5:47 p.m. (4) Syllabus: Super Secret Syllabus v.

2022 - summer

Syllabus: Super Secret Syllabus


v.2022 - summer
JOSHUA CITARELLA
JUN 10, 2022 ∙ PAID

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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.

Week 1
Read

Sadie Plant: Zeros + Ones (1997)


(pages 5-32) Ada — Gambling on the Future

Peter Thiel & Blake Masters: Zero to One (2014)


(pages 5-17) The Challenge of the Future — Mania

Week 2
Read

Sadie Plant: Zeros + Ones (1997)


(pages 244-256) Mutants — Casting off

Peter Thiel & Blake Masters: Zero to One (2014)


(pages 140-151) Man and Machine

Watch

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Sadie Plant: Seduced & Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World (1994)
44 min. runtime (up to — 29:00, end at Q&A.)

Week 3
Read

Mark Fisher: Terminator vs Avatar (2012)

Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek: Shelter Against Communism (2021)

Watch

u/akira (2019)

Week 4
Watch

David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go? (2014)

Week 5
Scroll

Building The Eternal City: Praxis (2021) Solbrah

Read

Peter Thiel: You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult. Here's How (2014)

Week 6
Read

Fredric Jameson: Wal-Mart as Utopia (2016)

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Week 7
Read

Kei Kreutler: A Prehistory of DAOs (2021)

Watch

When Guys Turn 20: DKP is Market Socialism (2022)

Week 8
Read

GVN908 & Arthur Roing Baer: Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer
Miniverses (2021)

Watch

Kei Kreutler: A Prehistory of DAOs (2021)

Week 9
Read

Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State (2013)


Introduction: Do Something Different
Chapter 1: From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovation (pages 14-35)

Watch

Mariana Mazzucato & Stewart Brand : Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
(1990)
102 min. runtime (Q&A only. begin at — 1:10:00)

Week 10
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Read

Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State (2013)


Chapter 5: The State Behind the iPhone (pages 81-101)

Scroll

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1190210441022234624?
s=20&t=EjOfj_Kz58X1wsqa5aPymA
source: Mazzucato, p. 109, Fig. 13

Watch

Mariana Mazzucato & Paul Mason: The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in
the Global Economy (2018)
97 min. runtime (up to — 51:00, end at Q&A.)

Week 11
Read

David Schweickart: After Capitalism (2002)


Chapter 1: Counterproject, Successor-System, Revolution (pages 1-24)

Watch

Dis: You Wasted a Good Crisis (2018)

Week 12
Read

David Schweickart: After Capitalism (2002)


Chapter 2: Justifying Capitalism (pages 25-44)

Watch

Jon Rafman: You, The World and I (2010)

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Week 13
Read

David Schweickart: After Capitalism (2002)


Chapter 3: Economic Democracy: What It Is (pages 45-84)

Week 14
Play

Francis Tseng & Son La Pham Trust: Half Earth Socialism (2002)

Additional Materials
Read

Vitalik Buterin: Soulbound (2022)

Bhaskar Sunkara & Fredrick Brennan: Founder of 8chan, Now He Wants to Take it
Offline (2019)

Watch

David Schweickart: After Capitalism: Where Do We Want to Go? How Might We Get
There? (2017)

guy in vr talks about their worst day as a soldier (2020)

Harun Farocki: Serious Games (2010)

Nick Vyssotsky: La La La La (Inside An Empty Room My Inspiration Flows) (2021)

Listen

Nick Srnicek & Reza Negarestani: Conversations About AI (2022)

New Models: After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick (2022)

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