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Former basement dwellers discuss the shifting landscape of today’s social media platforms. We recap the art of posting (RIP) and how politics transformed pop culture, comedy and entertainment. Check out episode 1 of Jack's brand new podcast: Otherworld: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/otherworld/id1647611444   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1w0bwmnSZQLnMbVtr2RUg1?si=2...

Crossover episode with New Models! Jump into a freestyle audit of the 2022 cultural ecosystem. We discuss how the creative economy, both on and off-platform, is evolving post-lockdown. Subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/newmodels Follow: https://www.instagram.com/newmodels_io/ Follow: https://www.instagram.com/rachelrossin/ More: https://rossin.co/   New Models, along with Joshua Citarella and Int...

Mat joined our friends Emilie & Andrea at The Culture Journalist to cover a brief history of the current wave of AI art, why artist replacement narratives can veer on the absurd, and the work we are doing launching our new organization Spawning .  Read and subscribe to the Culture Journalist: https://theculturejournalist.substack.com/   See if you feature in AI training models, and opt out or...

A unique look into online memetic subcultures where Gen Z teens explore radical politics like eco-extremism, neoreaction, anarcho-primitivism, transhumanism, anarcho-capitalism, the alt-right,  the post-left, egoism and cyber-nihilism.

A real joy to welcome one of our favorites David Kanaga, the composer and game designer behind Soft Valkyrie, a recent opera starring Stephen Fry and Attila Csihar, the dog opera O​ἶ​κ​o​ς​piel and more. We discuss gaming and modern composition and the fascinating villainy of Wagner. Listen to Soft Valkyrie: https://davidkanaga.bandcamp.com/album/soft-valkyrie-first-day-from-the-ring-of-the-nibelu...

Calla Henkel — one half of the artist duo, with Max Pitegoff, behind Berlin’s Times Bar, the New Theater, and currently TV Bar; as well as author of the “thrilling” (Cosmopolitan), “darkly glamorous” (The Stylist) debut novel, Other People’s Clothes (Sceptre, Doubleday, 2021) — talks to NM about scene-creation, image recuperation, and the post-2006 evolution of Berlin’s culture sector. Plus: self-...

From Anarcho-primitivist Instagram to local hardcore vegan straight edge. My guest talks eco-extremism, anti-work, climate collapse and the nihilism of extremely online communities.

A joy to welcome Yancey Stickler to discuss his idea of Post-Individualism and his new project Metalabel. We also get into his prior work founding Kickstarter, its parallels to web 3, and new proposals to fund artistic scenes. Metalabel: https://www.metalabel.xyz/   Follow Yancey: https://twitter.com/ystrickler   Read Yancey's great blog: https://www.ystrickler.com/writing  

Hardboiled trend consultant Ricky Backtrace is hired by a crypto exec to investigate a new kind of marketing agency called a "cancel shop," but things get complicated when the transquadrapedal get involved. This is Ep. 1 of a new long-form radio drama by Lil Internet. // For Ep. 2, subscribe: patreon.com/newmodels Subscriber release: 19 June 2022

Yung Chomsky joins me to talk physical fitness and left wing politics. We discuss the strategic importance of contested spaces online and why we shouldn’t cede this valuable territory to the right. https://twitter.com/yungchomsky   https://www.instagram.com/yungchomsky/   https://soundcloud.com/yung-chomsky   https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod  

Such a joy to have on virtuosic musician and instrument builder Tim Exile to discuss his collaborative online musical ecosystem Endlesss, the uneasy state of contemporary music, new folk traditions and what piqued his interest in web 3. Follow Tim: https://twitter.com/timexile   Endlesss: https://endlesss.fm/   Tim's music: https://warp.net/artists/91285-tim-exile/info  

A real pleasure to welcome Emad Mostaque to discuss the impending launch of Stable Diffusion, his comprehensive plans for open source AI infrastructure, the impending reconfiguration of how we create everything, and how artists might hope to adapt to it all.  Stability.ai - https://stability.ai/   Stable Diffusion Beta: https://stability.ai/beta-signup-form   Follow Emad: https://twitter.com/EMost...

I speak with Aidan Walker, a writer at KnowYourMeme.com, for the 67th issue of Meme Insider. Meme Insider #67 : memeinsider.com/releases/whitney-chewston Follow Aidan’s work: knowyourmeme.com/news/staff/aidan-walker wordways.us vibechecks.substack.com more: knowyourmeme.com/memes/capitalist…m-by-mark-fisher www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-plant-64821014

Over the moon to welcome titans of AI music Dadabots! We debate the coming obsolescence of human artists, their new open source AI music organization HarmonAI, and discuss what is being prototyped on the bleeding edge of AI sound generation.  Follow Dadabots: https://twitter.com/dadabots   Dadabots in the AI song contest: https://www.aisongcontest.com/the-2022-finalists

Political scientist Kevin Munger joins NM to discuss his new book “Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture” (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022). Along the way Kevin demystifies the hippie to yuppie pipeline, sheds light on the changing intergenerational contract, explains the origins of the concept of “generations,” and considers what may happen when Boomers’ out...

What will the declining middle class mean for U.S. party affiliations in the near future? I speak with YouTuber and political commentator J.J. McCullough about his recent column in The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/are-millennial-leftists-aging-into-right-wingers/   https://www.youtube.com/c/JJMcCullough   https://twitter.com/jj_mccullough   https://www.patreo...

We had a wonderfully funny chat with Marina Abramović on AI authorship and digital twins, the urgent need for heroism, and the parallels between performance art and web 3's attempts to value the immaterial. The Hero 25FPS: https://circa.art/nft/   Marina Abramović: Seven Easy Pieces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Easy_Pieces   Marina Abramović: The Life: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/w...

David Turner shares some of the most insightful and thorough analyses on the music industry through his Penny Fractions newsletter.  We link up to discuss the current state of streaming, his skepticism about much of crypto, and his positive perspective on the regular recycling of the 20th century in popular culture. Sub to Penny Fractions: https://pennyfractions.ghost.io/   Follow Penny Fractions:...

Deep internet A-listers Holly (@holyyyycow) and David Yoakum (@davidy) join NM for the only podcast about Remilia Co.’s ill-famed PFP NFT project you actually need to listen to. From 4chan to Kali/acc, Charlotte Fang to Ryder Ripps, we bring you this niche history so you can judge for yourself how the social web is re-aligning in 2022. Plus: new aesthetics, young girls, and Urbit x No Agency devir...

Cultural savants Shumon Basar (The Extreme Self & The Age of Earthquakes) and Dean Kissick (NY editor of Spike Art Magazine) join the show during Berlin Art Week for a sprawling, late-night convo on communication and creative production in year 2022. Along the way, we note the accelerating pace of decades, revisit Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 mass-media glow-up, log a veritable dictionary of neologisms...

Audio from the live event: June 6th 2022 at New Museum in NYC. Buy the book (direct link): https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/9534669/716219b59180600693f98dda95d2c5ba49427e23   Thank you to Michael Conner from Rhizome. https://www.instagram.com/rhizomedotorg/   Thank you to Lauren Boyle from Dis. https://www.instagram.com/dis/   https://dis.art/   https://www.instagram.com/everythingbutthewor...

Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism,  impact DAO's, public goods and crypto's relationship to the state . Buy Greenpilled and take the pledge: https://greenpill.party/#book Sub to The Green Pill Podcast: https://availableon.com/greenpill Follow Kevin: https://t...

Anil is one of our favorite thinkers on AI. To celebrate the advent of Anil's debut book "Logiciel: Six Seminars on Computational Reason", we try and pick apart some high level concepts on reason and computation,  and discuss why recent deep learning breakthroughs may require a break from traditional conceptions of what we consider to be intelligence. Follow Anil: https://twitter.com/cavvia   The...

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, an estimated 24 million dollars helped to fund 20 newly established art centers throughout eastern Europe. The SCCA mission was to archive “unofficial art” (works that were previously unrecognized by the authoritarian state) and to cultivate a new form of avant garde contemporary art with curious political overtones. Follow Aaron: https://www.instagram.com/a...