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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.

Get the game: joshuacitarella.metalabel.com/class-fantasy Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. Your goal is to defeat other players in battle and achieve utopia. Inspired by games like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft, Class Fantasy explores the essential role playing and world building process th...

Through her work as an architect and scholar, Keller Easterling has been exploring the technology of the world beyond the screen, making a case for its information-density, the complexity of navigating it. In her fiction essay "NON_2," which is published in Heavy Traffic issue IV, readers (and now listeners) can experience material space as Easterling imagines it, made aware of the flows and...

Exploring the political arc of the social media decade. Get the books: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vince…ublicaffairs us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger Links: youtu.be/6FCYcfiVqYQ www.theguardian.com/technology/2024…n-attack-berlin www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-anarcho-liberal/ www.youtube.com/live/cI7iyo2wv18?…=ilEl4ylOge0bJ8kf

My guest is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and an early investor in FaceBook. We discuss his interest in the downtown Manhattan literary scene and the role of philanthropy in the 21st century. Follow: https://twitter.com/peterthiel https://twitter.com/foundersfund Get the Book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zero-to-one-peter-thiel/1115559270

With her pop thriller Scrap (Sceptre Books) out this month in the EU & UK, author and artist Calla Henkel returns to New Models to speak about her process, practice, and recent move to the epicenter of narrative production that is Los Angeles, California. A long time denizen of Berlin where, with Max Pitegoff, she ran Times Bar , New Theater, and TV Bar, Henkel reflects on the creation of art...

How does media actually work in 2024, which is to say in a time of omnipresent AI? And what kind of subject is this era of media producing? On this ep, we speak with K Allado-McDowell —the author, with GPT-3, of Pharmako-AI , Amor Cringe , and Air Age Blueprint , and founder of the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI—about how media is evolving. Specifically, we ask about rise of “...

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Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes unpack historical resonances between territory, abstraction and financialization. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/arts/design/simon-denny-art-computers-gaming-review-musk-grimes.html https://www.instagram.com/sden023/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/juliaxgulia/ https://www.instagram.com/joshuacitarella/ https://www.instagram.com/dunkunsthalle/ https://...