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<div class="value"><div class="title"></div><div class="value"><p class="">Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts, edited by Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty</p><div class=""><div class="media-check"></div></div><div class=""><div class="media-check"></div></div><div class=""><a href="https://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/" class="">https://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><article style="display: none;" class=""><div class="block introduction"><p class="">Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools
for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their
joint ventures using blockchain technology. This new book, edited by
Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, who have been at the forefront of
investigations into the relationship between DAOs and the arts,
constitutes over 5 years of research with essays, interviews, exercises
and prototypes from leading thinkers, artists and technologists across
this emerging field.</p>
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<div class="block text-block"><p class="">In recent years DAOs have been heralded as a powerful stimulus
for experimentation to reshape new cultural value systems for
interdependence, cooperation, and care. At a time when the mainstream
artworld is focused on NFTs, this book refocuses attention toward DAOs
as potentially the most radical blockchain technology for the arts, in
the long term. Contributors engage with both past and emergent
methodologies for building resilient and mutable systems for scale-free
mutual aid. Collectively, the book aims to evoke and conjure new
imaginative communities, and to share the practices and blueprints for
the vehicles to get there.</p><p class="">Radical Friends is an urgent book for the 21st Century and beyond. It
shows us, in the spirit of the legendary poet and artist Etel Adnan,
that the technology of the future needs to be about “togetherness, not
separation. Love, not suspicion. A common future, not isolation.”<br class="">
<strong class="">Hans Ulrich Obrist</strong> </p><p class="">How things are run is often more important than what is done. It may
not be easy to establish alternative formats and infrastructures, but
it’s certainly necessary… This collection shows that it is possible too.<br class="">
<strong class="">Sadie Plant</strong> </p><p class="">
This book is about friendship, despair and hope — a beautiful,
must-read for all people who are asking unanswerable questions about
life, love and the end of the world.<br class="">
<strong class="">Franco “Bifo” Beradi</strong> </p><p class="">Web 3 diagonalises the principles of Web 1 and Web 2. Binaries are
dead. Everything is both good and evil, emancipatory and oppressive,
singular and infinitely replicable. Radical Friends navigates this
confusing new terrain in a nuanced and accessible way that is liable to
make you feel excited about the future of art, politics, and maybe even
the world again.<br class="">
<strong class="">Amy Ireland, author</strong></p><p class="">An instant seminal compendium for people who want to gain a deeper
understanding of the radical potential of crypto tech for aesthetic
institutions.<br class="">
<strong class="">Harm van den Dorpel, artist & founder of left gallery</strong></p>
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<div class="value"><p class="">978-0-9932487-7-1</p>
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<div class="value"><p class="">14 July 2022</p>
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<div class="value"><p class="">352pp; 198mm x 129mm; Full-colour litho; SB section sewn</p>
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<div class="title">EDITORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty</p>
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<div class="title">CONTRIBUTORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Ramon Amaro, Calum Bowden, Jaya Klara Brekke,
Mitchell F. Chan, Cade Diehm, eeefff, Carina Erdmann, Primavera De
Filippi, Charlotte Frost, Max Hampshire, Lucile Olympe Haute, Sara
Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Cadence Kinsey, Nick Koppenhagen, Kei
Kreutler, Laura Lotti, Jonas Lund, Massimiliano Mollona, MetaObjects,
Rhea Myers, Omsk Social Club, Bhavisha Panchia, Legacy Russell, Tina
Rivers Ryan, Nathan Schneider, Sam Skinner, Sam Spike, Hito Steyerl,
Alex S. Taylor, Cassie Thornton, Suzanne Treister, Stacco Troncoso, Ann
Marie Utratel, Samson Young</p>
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<div class="title">Design </div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Mark Simmonds</p>
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<div class="title">COVER & INSIDE ILLUSTRATIONS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Marijn Degenaar</p>
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</div>
</div>
</article>
<div class="media-check"></div></div><div class=""><article style="display: none;" class=""><div class="block introduction"><p class="">Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools
for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their
joint ventures using blockchain technology. This new book, edited by
Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, who have been at the forefront of
investigations into the relationship between DAOs and the arts,
constitutes over 5 years of research with essays, interviews, exercises
and prototypes from leading thinkers, artists and technologists across
this emerging field.</p>
</div>
<div class="expanded text-content-wrapper">
<div class="block text-block"><p class="">In recent years DAOs have been heralded as a powerful stimulus
for experimentation to reshape new cultural value systems for
interdependence, cooperation, and care. At a time when the mainstream
artworld is focused on NFTs, this book refocuses attention toward DAOs
as potentially the most radical blockchain technology for the arts, in
the long term. Contributors engage with both past and emergent
methodologies for building resilient and mutable systems for scale-free
mutual aid. Collectively, the book aims to evoke and conjure new
imaginative communities, and to share the practices and blueprints for
the vehicles to get there.</p><p class="">Radical Friends is an urgent book for the 21st Century and beyond. It
shows us, in the spirit of the legendary poet and artist Etel Adnan,
that the technology of the future needs to be about “togetherness, not
separation. Love, not suspicion. A common future, not isolation.”<br class="">
<strong class="">Hans Ulrich Obrist</strong> </p><p class="">How things are run is often more important than what is done. It may
not be easy to establish alternative formats and infrastructures, but
it’s certainly necessary… This collection shows that it is possible too.<br class="">
<strong class="">Sadie Plant</strong> </p><p class="">
This book is about friendship, despair and hope — a beautiful,
must-read for all people who are asking unanswerable questions about
life, love and the end of the world.<br class="">
<strong class="">Franco “Bifo” Beradi</strong> </p><p class="">Web 3 diagonalises the principles of Web 1 and Web 2. Binaries are
dead. Everything is both good and evil, emancipatory and oppressive,
singular and infinitely replicable. Radical Friends navigates this
confusing new terrain in a nuanced and accessible way that is liable to
make you feel excited about the future of art, politics, and maybe even
the world again.<br class="">
<strong class="">Amy Ireland, author</strong></p><p class="">An instant seminal compendium for people who want to gain a deeper
understanding of the radical potential of crypto tech for aesthetic
institutions.<br class="">
<strong class="">Harm van den Dorpel, artist & founder of left gallery</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="meta block">
<div class="row">
<div class="title">TITLE</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">ISBN</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">978-0-9932487-7-1</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">PUBLISHED</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">14 July 2022</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">DISTRIBUTORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class=""><a href="https://www.turnaround-uk.com/" target="_blank" class="">Turnaround</a> (UK) / <a href="http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/" target="_blank" class="">Motto</a> (DE)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">RRP</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">£20/£10</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">SPEC</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">352pp; 198mm x 129mm; Full-colour litho; SB section sewn</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">Buy Print Edition</div>
<div class="value"><p class=""><a href="http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/radical-friends-ruth-catlow-penny-rafferty-torque-editions-9780993248764.html" target="_blank" class="">View at Motto</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radical-Friends-Decentralised-Autonomous-Organisations/dp/0993248772/" target="_blank" class="">View on Amazon</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">Buy PDF Edition</div>
<div class="value"><p class=""><a href="https://torque-editions.sellfy.store/p/radical-friends-decentralised-autonomous-organisations-and-the-arts/" target="_blank" class="">View</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">EDITORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">CONTRIBUTORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Ramon Amaro, Calum Bowden, Jaya Klara Brekke,
Mitchell F. Chan, Cade Diehm, eeefff, Carina Erdmann, Primavera De
Filippi, Charlotte Frost, Max Hampshire, Lucile Olympe Haute, Sara
Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Cadence Kinsey, Nick Koppenhagen, Kei
Kreutler, Laura Lotti, Jonas Lund, Massimiliano Mollona, MetaObjects,
Rhea Myers, Omsk Social Club, Bhavisha Panchia, Legacy Russell, Tina
Rivers Ryan, Nathan Schneider, Sam Skinner, Sam Spike, Hito Steyerl,
Alex S. Taylor, Cassie Thornton, Suzanne Treister, Stacco Troncoso, Ann
Marie Utratel, Samson Young</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">Design </div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Mark Simmonds</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">COVER & INSIDE ILLUSTRATIONS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Marijn Degenaar</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</article>
<div class="media-check"></div>Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools for
translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their joint
ventures using blockchain technology. This new book, edited by Ruth
Catlow and Penny Rafferty, who have been at the forefront of
investigations into the relationship between DAOs and the arts,
constitutes over 5 years of research with essays, interviews, exercises
and prototypes from leading thinkers, artists and technologists across
this emerging field.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In recent years DAOs have been heralded as a powerful stimulus
for experimentation to reshape new cultural value systems for
interdependence, cooperation, and care. At a time when the mainstream
artworld is focused on NFTs, this book refocuses attention toward DAOs
as potentially the most radical blockchain technology for the arts, in
the long term. Contributors engage with both past and emergent
methodologies for building resilient and mutable systems for scale-free
mutual aid. Collectively, the book aims to evoke and conjure new
imaginative communities, and to share the practices and blueprints for
the vehicles to get there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Radical Friends is an urgent book for the 21st Century and beyond. It
shows us, in the spirit of the legendary poet and artist Etel Adnan,
that the technology of the future needs to be about “togetherness, not
separation. Love, not suspicion. A common future, not isolation.”</div><div class=""><div class="expanded text-content-wrapper"><div class="block text-block"><p class="">
<strong class="">Hans Ulrich Obrist</strong> </p><p class="">How things are run is often more important than what is done. It may
not be easy to establish alternative formats and infrastructures, but
it’s certainly necessary… This collection shows that it is possible too.<br class="">
<strong class="">Sadie Plant</strong> </p><p class="">
This book is about friendship, despair and hope — a beautiful,
must-read for all people who are asking unanswerable questions about
life, love and the end of the world.<br class="">
<strong class="">Franco “Bifo” Beradi</strong> </p><p class="">Web 3 diagonalises the principles of Web 1 and Web 2. Binaries are
dead. Everything is both good and evil, emancipatory and oppressive,
singular and infinitely replicable. Radical Friends navigates this
confusing new terrain in a nuanced and accessible way that is liable to
make you feel excited about the future of art, politics, and maybe even
the world again.<br class="">
<strong class="">Amy Ireland, author</strong></p><p class="">An instant seminal compendium for people who want to gain a deeper
understanding of the radical potential of crypto tech for aesthetic
institutions.<br class="">
<strong class="">Harm van den Dorpel, artist & founder of left gallery</strong></p></div></div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="title">CONTRIBUTORS</div>
<div class="value"><p class="">Ramon Amaro, Calum Bowden, Jaya Klara Brekke,
Mitchell F. Chan, Cade Diehm, eeefff, Carina Erdmann, Primavera De
Filippi, Charlotte Frost, Max Hampshire, Lucile Olympe Haute, Sara
Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Cadence Kinsey, Nick Koppenhagen, Kei
Kreutler, Laura Lotti, Jonas Lund, Massimiliano Mollona, MetaObjects,
Rhea Myers, Omsk Social Club, Bhavisha Panchia, Legacy Russell, Tina
Rivers Ryan, Nathan Schneider, Sam Skinner, Sam Spike, Hito Steyerl,
Alex S. Taylor, Cassie Thornton, Suzanne Treister, Stacco Troncoso, Ann
Marie Utratel, Samson Young.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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