Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

In this course

Ron Paul appears primarily as a representative figure of cyberlibertarian ideology—the view that government is inherently totalitarian and that decentralized, market-based systems offer emancipatory alternatives. The readings invoke him alongside Reagan and Thatcher to exemplify a strain of anti-statist thought that has influenced contemporary discourse around cryptocurrencies and decentralized technologies, though the course material suggests these movements often misread both the political implications and technical capacities of their chosen systems.

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David Golumbia

from Bitcoin, Software as Rightwing Extremism

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China Mieville

On Social Sadism

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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…

Scott Benzel

Notes on À bruit secret: on Duchamp, Cybernetics, 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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