dark-industries/syllabus

things to read

syllabus

Aesthetics

• In Praise of Shadows [milan]
• K-Hole brand reports
• Propaganda of Pantone: Color and Subcultural Sublimation [ltwp]
• The Last Lifestyle Magazine (Kinfolk) [zech]
• Edmund Burke - The Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• Snackwave: A Comprehensive Guide To The Internet’s Saltiest Meme

Blackness

• Black Vernacular: Reading New Media [ltwp]

Cities

• Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture [frnsys]

Classics

• Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
• Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
• Ursula Le Guin - Those Who Walk Away From Omelas
• Nietzsche - Genealogy of Morals
• Dialectic of Enlightenment
• On the Genealogy of Morals part 1: Meet Dr Nietzsche
• Wes Cecil

Culture

• Society of the Spectacle [frnsys]

Design

• Chris Novello's Computer Utopias Syllabus
• Immaterial Design [bearwhale]
• What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About When We Talk About Making [ltwp]
• Reading List [ltwp]
• Design is a Bureaucrat [gav]
• The Web's Grain [jyngo]
• How to Write a History of Writing Software
• design, social systems
• Designing Culture [ltwp]

Economics

• The Worldly Philosophers [frnsys]
• A history of utopias in America [frnsys]
• Elinor Ostrom & The Commons
• New York After Rent [zech]
• The Value of Nothing
• Varoufakis's Foundations of Economics [frnsys]

Ethics

• Reflections on the Guillotine [haley]

Feminism

• Men Explain Things To Me [haley]

Further-Reading

• Places Journal Reading Lists [morgane]

History

• The End of Days is Coming— Just Not to China [morgane]
• Deep Time of the Media [milan]

Hodgepodge

• [Anna Anthropy - Video Games and Trans Identity](Anna Anthropy, video games and trans identity)
• The State of the Art [frnsys]
• Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Story of Your Life

Lists

• Death Acceptance Reading Lists [morgane]

Memes

• The philosopher's meme

Philosophy

• “The Bound Man” [devin]
• [Zhuangzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)

Poetry

• Autobiography of Red [jschear]

Politics

• Scary Negroes With Guns [gav]
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness [zech]
• Xenofeminism [morgane]
• To Keep and Bear Arms [gav]
• Walter Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction [gav]
• Four Futures⏳ [frnsys]

Queer

• Trans Body’s Path in 8 Folds [brook]

Rightwing

• The Establishment Conservative's Guide to the Alt Right
• MouthBreathing Machiavellis
• members of the frankfurt school, how facism happened
• The Silicon Ideology
• The Frankfurt school, Part 1: why did Anders Breivik fear them?

Self

• Evading the twin traps of positive thinking and nihilistic despair
• Life-hacks of the poor and aimless

Sociology

• Moral Mazes [frnsys]

Tech

• A Cyborg Manifesto [frnsys]
• The Moral Economy of Tech
• the unexotic underclass
• Peter Singer & Effective Altruism
• Unnecessariat
• Uncanny Valley
• The Awl: The Content Wars