Reading list
The shelf the lab argues with.
Works that inform the theoretical substrate of Dissensus research — the friction thesis has a bibliography, and this is it. These are not endorsements; they are starting points for productive disagreement.
Or simply: know what you are disagreeing with.
Economics & coordination
Where friction gets priced. The literature that first treated coordination as a cost rather than a given — the lab’s economics is downstream of every entry here.
Political philosophy & legitimacy
The shelf the lab is named after. Dissensus as function rather than dysfunction — and the legitimacy theories that claim otherwise.
Philosophy of mind & agency
What counts as an agent, and where an agent ends. Necessary groundwork for any theory that refuses to privilege substrate.
Evolution & complex systems
Order without a designer. The original multi-agent systems, running longer than any market.
AI & alignment
The youngest shelf and the oldest problem: what happens when optimisation targets and human interests are not the same thing.
Where we answer back
Everything above is input. The output — where the lab agrees, disagrees, and formalises the difference — is catalogued under Research, with mirrors at farzulla.org and the Zenodo archive.