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Every summer, we return to the land of our youth, the Mid-Atlantic USA and, as has become tradition, relay our impressions of it to you. With this episode — Part 1 of NM America Diaries August 2024 — Lil Internet shares scenes from our arrival in Maryland, starring Bird Boy, Badge Bunny, Ty the Hotel Van Driver, and introducing Diazepam Dorris.  Coming soon: Part 2 (Carly) a morning stroll th...

This week’s guest is a 17 year old Left Communist from the Bay Area. He was a right-wing troll at age 13. We explore niche political subcultures, generational posting styles and the value of electoral politics.

A few weeks ago, artist and friend of New Models, Bjarne Melgaard reached out with an episode proposal. He'd become close with actor and artist Paz de La Huerta, whose debut solo show had just closed at Rutkowski;68 gallery in Paris. Bjarne had been painting Paz for a new series of work and she was interested in speaking to us together with him about that collaboration, her own art, and their shar...

Alex Hochuli is a co-host of the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast and a co-author of "The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century". He joins me to discuss universalisms, organization and the difficult way forward. Follow: https://x.com/bungacast https://x.com/Alex__1789

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From AI to global power alignments to domestic political sentiments in the US and EU, 2024 is shaping up to be a frontier zone year of an era to come. Joining us on this episode is journalist James Pogue who is no stranger to the edges of the political present and uncommonly adept at anticipating where they lead. When Pogue last came on the show in 2022, his piece on America’s New Right for Vanity...

Otherworld presents Deep Research. This week, we’re covering “Tartaria”. Tartaria is a conspiracy theory that suggests the existence of a vast, advanced civilization that supposedly existed in ancient times but has been intentionally erased from historical records. Proponents of this theory often claim that Tartaria was a highly developed and technologically advanced empire with a global influence...

Marek Poliks , co-host of the Disintegrator pod, shares his theory (with research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo) of “lift,” in which capitalism as we’ve known it pulls away from the realm of human activity to arbitrage increasingly abstract systems. Within this frame, things start to get very weird—for one, we all become non-players—and inefficiency starts to be a source of value.  For more:...

I sat down with Catherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders (2021), professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine, for her new series at Montez Press Radio. Catherine writes, “This series, Workers of the Culture Industry Unite! (LOL) tries to address the problems of artists' work in the age of finance capitalism… At a time when the corporations and institutions that support artists are suffering...

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Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content Written & read by Caroline Busta Document  Journal SS24 + What if, in a time of infinity content, a meta-reading of the shape and feel of content has become a survival skill? + What if we thought about generative AI more as an expression of an epochal shift in human communication than a root cause? + More than transmitting specific inform...

Ruby Thelot is a designer, cyber-ethnographer and artist. He is a professor of Design and Media Theory at NYU. We discuss his new book: A Cyber Archeology of Checkpoints (2024) a poignant tribute to a vanished online community. Get the book: https://www.irrelevantpress.com/store/pre-sale-a-cyberarchaeology-of-checkpoints-ruby-thelot Follow: https://www.instagram.com/being_on_line/?hl=en

+ Brief history of the music video + Proof of clout & street teams + GRWM & BTS content + Coachella fan videos + The Daniela Lalita Discord + DIIV’s soul-net.co + Moodboard cinema (cc: Theo Anthony) + Superflat TV (The Bear, True Detective Season 4) + Shoegaze streaming + AI video production We’re joined by OG New Models (& DoNotResearch) member Jak Ritger (see “ Astroturfs of Offense...

My guest is a Post-Marxist. We explore political subcultures such as Post-left Anarchy, Unconditional Accelerationism, Leftcom, Anarcho-Primitivism and more.

Marking the 25th anniversary of Napster’s launch (June 1, 1999), Lil Internet shares a preview of his new “gencore” project along with a monologue on AI, copyright, and the longstanding correspondence between technology and human-directed sound. First the intro/monologue then (at 24:14) the album-length speculative mixtape “Illegal Generation Vol. 1,” by the Bootcut Boys. SIDE A (24:14) INTRO (THI...

Towards a Philosophy of Photography by Vilem Flusser (1984) https://dis.art/obama-baroque https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007785730/facebook-news-feed-zuckerberg.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liLGhXv76dg

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2channel | 4chan | Netflix | Jan. 6 | Online physics | Systems documentary In 2020, filmmakers Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini came on the show to talk about their Sundance-award-winning documentary Feels Good Man , which traced the transformation of Pepe the Frog and the trials of the original Pepe’s creator, Matt Furie. Arthur and Giorgio return on this episode to discuss their new work, rel...

Get the book: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfa2 Yancey and I visit Montez Press Radio in downtown NYC to discuss the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet. Follow: https://www.instagram.com/montezpressradio https://www.instagram.com/ystrickler https://twitter.com/ystrickler https://www.instagram.com/metalabel__/ https://twitter.com/metalabel_

Although a whole day has passed since opening, the plushy carpet shows no footprints. This must be the oft-reported death of retail, which reminds Leo of the death of movies, which reminds him of his own death. Then again—he cheers up—dead or no, neither—stores nor movies—ever seem to go away. [...] A non-linear fashion noir, Olivia Kan-Sperling ’s “The Perfect Glove” is a holographic short e...

CYCLOPS is a journey through a world of mind-control experiments, psychological operations, and unexplained historical anomalies. Featuring historical documents, games, films, and other media produced between the 1950s and early 1970s, CYCLOPS requires active engagement and participation. Players are tasked with reconstructing events, deciphering codes, conducting open-source intelligence investig...

Finitude | Ecocide | Climate collapse | AI | Memory | Techne | Walter Benjamin | Tom Cohen | Species Split | Angelicism | Lola Jusidman | Cinema Literary and cinema scholar Tom Cohen and returning guest, writer Lola Jusidman (producer of Angelicism01’s Film01 ) join NM to discuss Tom’s work and its foundational influence on the Angelicism Project on the occasion of the related seminar, “AMOC...

Austin Robey, co-founder of Metalabel, joins me to discuss alternative models for the internet. We explore “Ampled”, a cooperative platform for musicians that existed from 2018-2023 and theorize about the next generation of platforms. Follow: https://twitter.com/austinrobey_ https://www.instagram.com/michaelcoors/ https://twitter.com/metalabel_ https://www.instagram.com/metalabel__/ Read: https://...

The author of such brilliantly apophenic novels as Gods Without Men , Red Pill , and White Tears , Hari Kunzru talks with NM shortly before the release of his latest book, Blue Ruin (Knopf), which is sited between two art worlds some 25 years apart. Currently based in New York, Hari spent the 90s in the UK, in part at Warwick University alongside the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), then a...

Get the game: https://joshuacitarella.metalabel.com/class-fantasy The perfect gift for your Maoist-Third Worldist nephew, doomsday prepper divorced dad or Q Anon yoga mom.