Index

Contents

12 Preface: Radical Friendship, Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty
20 Foreword: Practice Upwards, Nathan Schneider
26 Introduction: What is Radical Friendship made of?, Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty
52 An Artworld DAO Timeline
76 Glossary of Terms, Rhea Myers

ESSAYS
86 A Thousand DAOs, Rhea Myers
94 Eight Qualities of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, Kei Kreutler
102 The Reappropriation of Life and the Living – A Cosmic Battleground, Penny Rafferty
115 Decentralisation, Autonomy and Organisation, Jaya Klara Brekke
127 Walk The Walk – Beyond Blockchain Orientalism, Hito Steyerl
134 Cyberwitches’ Manifesto Lucile Haute 138 Beauty and the Beast: Collectivity and the Corporation, Legacy Russell
150 Manifesting a Black Swan DAO, Laura Lotti & Calum Bowden
163 Commune Killer, Qu’est-ce Que C’est?, Cassie Thornton
173 Translocal Belonging and Cultural Cooperation after the Blockchain – A Citizen Sci-fi, Ruth Catlow
190 Blockchain and the General Problem of Protocological Control, Ramon Amaro
200 Nature 3.0: blockchain for extraction or care?, Sara Heitlinger, Lara Houston & Alex Taylor
210 Material Zones: An Interview with Sam Spike of Fingerprints DAO & Mitchell F. Chan, Sam Skinner
225 This Is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the PTP Network, Cade Diehm
242 Will the Artworld’s NFT Wars End in Utopia or Dystopia?, Tina Rivers
245 A Blockchain Art History Timeline, Ruth Catlow, Cadence Kinsey, Rhea Myers & Studio Hyte

THE ARTWORLD DAOs SPEAK
272 Introduction
274 I Am My Own Being: Plantoid
276 DAOWO
278 terra0: Letting the world computer grow roots, branches and leaves
280 Black Swan Speaks
282 Lazy As A Fox: Jonas Lund Token (JLT)
284 All Your DAOs Are Belong To Us: The DisCO Cat Speaks
287 More Than Meme Compilations In White Cubes: DAK
289 CultureStake: It’s Your Culture, It’s Your Call!
291 I AM A DIGITAL SOUL: The Sphere for Artworld DAOs

A METHOD KIT OF PRACTICES, TACTICS AND PROTOTYPES
298 The Five Gateways Omsk, Social Club
305 To Larp a DAO, Ruth Catlow
315 Artworld DAO Prototypes
318 Economic Orangery 2021, eeefff
322 Cygnet Prototype, Black Swan
326 Covalence Studios, Bhavisha Panchia
334 Ensembl: Between Artistic Collaborations and Political Prefiguration, Mao Mollona & Samson Young
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340 Suzanne Treister: Hexen 2.0 Image Captions
342 Contributors
346 Index
351 Acknowledgements
352 Colophon