Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Ron Paul appears as a libertarian political figure whose radical anti-state positions exemplify a philosophical stance the readings link to cyberlibertarian ideology—the view that government is inherently tyrannical and that decentralized, market-based systems offer alternatives. His invocation in debates about healthcare and his association with commodity-money ideologies (gold standard thinking) ground the course's examination of how libertarian thought shapes contemporary techno-political imaginaries, particularly around Bitcoin and decentralized networks that promise to bypass governmental mediation. Paul functions here as a political reference point for understanding the ideological genealogy of technological utopianism within the seminar's broader critique of AI and cybernetic systems.

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David Golumbia

from Bitcoin, Software as Rightwing Extremism

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China Mieville

On Social Sadism - Salvage

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At a debate between Republican candidates in September 2011, Wolf Blitzer, the chair, mooted the case of a hypothetical thirty-year-old uninsured man who becomes sick. ‘[C]ongressman,’ Blitzer asks Ron Paul, ‘are you saying that society sho…

Geoff Shullenberger

Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection

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For Girard, to wield power is to control the mechanisms by which the mimetic violence that threatens the social order is contained, channeled, and expelled. Girard’s politics, as mentioned above, are ambiguous: he criticizes conservatism fo…

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Cybernetics, CIA, and Organized Crime

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Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …

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