Coining Reason

Discussion Series

Coining Reason

Coining Reason is a weekly discussion series exploring ideas connected to Web3 through a deliberately wide range of subject areas — economics, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, law, ecology, business, art, and religion. This breadth isn't undisciplined wandering: as financialization comes to touch nearly every part of life, no single field is equipped to catch everything at stake, and a single technology's arrival tends to reshape the whole frame people think within, not just the picture inside it.

Below is a Roadmap of these subject areas ("Units"), each with its own reading list. Because the depth and scope of each Unit varies, Coining Reason's participants ultimately help shape the pace and direction of the investigation.

Current Seminar

Unit II — Economics On Hiatus
11 Sessions held (+ 2 unnumbered) · July 2023 – July 2024
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Unit I — The Internet
9 Sessions · April – June 2023 · Completed
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Coining Reason

Roadmap

Click any unit for a summary and topic list. Full session-by-session readings for enrolled participants above. Full archive on GitHub ↗

Unit I
The Internet
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Web 1, 2, 3 — cyberspace, digital bodies, psychoanalysis of online life. Completed.
Unit II
Economics
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Histories and theories of money and surplus value. On hiatus.
Unit III
Politics
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Sovereignty, democracy, and the political theory of decentralized governance.
Unit IV
Philosophy
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Human nature, technology, individuation, and general economy.
Unit V
Law
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Piracy, contract, blockchain as law, securities regulation.
Unit VI
Ecology
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Network and ecosystem, surplus energy, degrowth.
Unit VII
Business
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Companies, corporations, start-ups, nonprofits, and DAOs.
Unit VIII
Art
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NFTs, fiction and capital, collecting, performativity.
Unit IX
Religion
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Ancient economy, sacred money, divine economy, sacralization.
Unit X
Miscellany
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Overflow texts for supplementary discussion across all units.