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One of the most compelling examples, so far, of media made using AI content generation is the video that artist Jon Rafman created for Kanye West’s new album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures . Rather than aiming for maximum realism in these clips, Rafman leans into visual incoherence, moments where the software experiences a collapse of distinction. This, coupled with prompts that could have gone some...

AUDIO : As Vice announced last week that it would be sunsetting its content production, ceasing publication to its site, LIL INTERNET takes us back to a special 2018 assignment for the brand. VIDEO : Vogue x VICE Lynchburg Documentary [2018, unfinished, dir. Lil Internet] POSTSCRIPT by Carly: Six years ago in February 2018, Julian found himself in Lynchburg, VA, an average American town about 3 ho...

Artist Paige K.B. calls into the stream to discuss three major exhibitions: “Cute” at Somerset House in London, “Poetics of Encryption” at KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, and Simon Denny’s shows in New York. Follow: https://www.instagram.com/guiltgroupe/ Exhibitions: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/cute https://poeticsofencryption.kw-berlin.de/src/html/Exibition.html https://...

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“Machine Time” — Part 2 of 2 “For millennia one had measured oneself against the cycles of the seasons and the heavens, or against changing social mores and geopolitical configurations. To now be compelled to measure one’s life against the pace of machine time invited madness.”   In this long-form essay by Seth Price , a “cultured middle aged artist from New York” attends a winter solstice pa...

My guest is a 20 year old Marxist. At age 12, he began exploring niche circles of Tumblr, YouTube and Wikipedia.

“For millennia one had measured oneself against the cycles of the seasons and the heavens, or against changing social mores and geopolitical configurations. To now be compelled to measure one’s life against the pace of machine time invited madness.”   In this long-form essay by Seth Price , a “cultured middle aged artist from New York” attends a winter solstice party at an “open-air, tropical...

@ dnlklr joins me to discuss the For-You-Pagification of the internet, hyper polarization online, network states, AI vs. climate and building new institutions. https://twitter.com/DnlKlr https://www.instagram.com/dnlklr/ https://twitter.com/__vaporware__

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A few months ago, we interviewed artist Jordan Wolfson for the FW 23-24 issue of CURA magazine . The occasion was the unveiling of his 4.5M USD animatronic installation, Body Sculpture , which is on view through April 28, 2024 at Australia’s National Gallery in Canberra. We spoke with Jordan for nearly 4 hours across two days of recording but very little of that conversation made it onto the print...

My guest ran a collaborative role-playing game that turned political meme accounts on Instagram into an MMO for fantasy nation-states.

Heavy Traffic is a fiction magazine based in New York City. Designed by Richard Turley and featuring new writing by the likes of Honor Levy, Dean Kissick, Olivia Kan Sperling, John Kelsey, Madeline Cash, Seth Price, and Zans Brady Krohn, it’s one of those publications that seems to thoroughly understand—and reflect—the mood of its time. It’s founding editor and publisher, Patrick McGraw joins New...

The NM practice of penning travel monologues continues with this entry by Lil Internet, who reflects, through the fog of COVID, on our Christmastime visit to the States. Written in real-time as he and Carly travelled with an infant from Berlin to Virginia Beach and then northern Baltimore County, the piece unfolds across a particularly American mix of airport hotels, Amtrak stations, CVS aisles, a...

Her new book is out now from MacMillan Press: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250269621/dirtbag Amber A'Lee Frost is a writer and co-host of Chapo Trap House. Find her writing in Jacobin Magazine, Catalyst, Damage Magazine, The Baffler, American Affairs and many others. IG: instagram.com/amberaleefrost

Political scientist Kevin Munger lectures on Vilém Flusser's 1978 Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations?   Initially rejected by MIT Press for being too radical, Flusser’s 1978  Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations?  was finally published in December 2022 by Stanford University Press. The work maps out a massive transition in the way we communicate—one that was legible...

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Philosopher of technology, Benjamin Bratton, joins me to discuss AI, terraforming, geopolitics and planetary scale computation. Read his work and learn more about Antikythera in the links below: twitter.com/bratton antikythera.org/ mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029575/the-stack/ www.versobooks.com/products/2749-t…nge-of-the-real Trust: Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin Bratton mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029999/...

Happy to welcome Sterling Crispin back on the pod, who was in the news (and our collective feeds) a few times this year. We chat about his neuro-tech work at Apple for their Vision Pro headset, and do a deep dive into the Kojima-esque, "Rogue AI" Del Complex project, and their BlueSea Frontier Computer Cluster.  Following the crazy weekend in AI news, the schizo-corporate lore of this project...

A conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho. Building on the ideas of Tiqqun’s 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl , Andrea Long Chu’s Females and Bogna Konior’s work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the “Girlstack,” which, to borrow her words, models the “ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and...

Tomorrow we will be posting our regularly scheduled content, a conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho regarding her model for thinking about how power operates online, which builds on the category of “Girl” or “Young-Girl” as the digital sphere’s ur-subject. But first we wanted to share with you some reflections on the Israel-Hamas war and they way in which this tragic exchange has radiat...

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My guest is a 22 year old from the Middle East. She has spent the last few years immersed in political meme culture and radical content online.

Film01: Histoire(s) de l ’ internet is a work of cinema from writer Angelicism01 , whose often scathing online presence played a central role in the so-called vibe shift of 2021. Running 3+ hours, Film01 premiered this past June in NYC at Anthology Film Archives. It is composed entirely of other people’s footage—some submitted, most scraped from the internet—to tell a story of imminent extinction...

Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media. Read the full essay: https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/platform-wars-part-4-a-public-option

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