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Few if any are better, more observant chroniclers of post-millennial, culture-sector life than the NYC-based author Natasha Stagg. On this episode, she joins New Models to discuss her new book of collected writing, Artless: Stories 2019-2023 , which leads readers through the rubble of early 21st-century creative industries and the new types of spaces and subjects emergent in their wake. Artless fo...

If you’re just joining us, check out The Platform Wars part 1 & part 2. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/platform-wars-part-3-tiktok-and-geopolitics https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-3-87023598

Having launched his popular blog ribbonfarm.com in 2007 (now also via Substack ), Venkatesh Rao writes big-picture tech- and media-aware analysis that’s an indispensable orientation tool for anyone modeling how our perception of the world is changing. While we initially invited Rao to speak with New Models about a growing sense of narrative entropy (what he calls “unnaratability”) and reflections...

NM70 Explicit Bonus Track w/ e xperimental pop musician Dorian Electra and cultural theorist Shumon Basar Electra on sex, kink, fame, and desire. Dorian's 3rd album, Fanfare is out 6 Oct 2023.  For more: @dorianelectra on IG , X , YouTube  & @dorianelectraofficial on TikTok @shumonbasar on IG , X & Core + Lore a film by Shumon Basar & Y7 (Hannah Cobb & Declan Colquitt

Dianna visits the podcasts to discuss trend cycles, faith, mythology and artistic practice. Hear about her upcoming performances: diannaluciadragonetti.substack.com/ Send professional inquiries: info-[at]-saras.world

Experimental pop musician Dorian Electra and cultural theorist Shumon Basar join New Models to discuss fandoms, lorecore , and the terms of contemporary celebrity just before the release of Dorian’s 3rd album, Fanfare (out 6 Oct 2023). Like a double record, the content of this conversation exceeds the standard container of a single episode—explicit bonus track forthcoming later this week! For more...

Interactive Media Bias Chart Donald Trump voters told us why billionaires have too much power. We v... | john russell | TikTok China's 'indoctrination' of American schools to make 'Little Red Classrooms': Communist Party funneled $17 MILLION into more than 143 K-12 schools - sparking a Republican probe Trump Rally Goers HATE Billionaires Too | Breaking Points Inventing New Sexualities DNR-T-23 Is...

My guest is a 19 year old left-wing Islamic nationalist from Tennessee. His account attracted lots of attention and controversy online. **recorded: Dec 12, 2020**

A forgotten sketch for a radio play about Elon Musk’s 69th birthday in the year 2040 gets expanded by Lil Internet into a 30 minute epic of simps, clones, and the extreme subjectivity of “utopia.” Note: We recommend you listen to this episode on headphones —both because it makes full use of audio (so sounds best this way) and because its conten t isn’t appropriate for anyone.

In advance of the premiere of her new AI fueled gesamtkunstwerk “Gorgon”, the artist Marianna Simnett joins us to dive into mythology, mimicry and the saga of convincing tools to do what you want them to! “Gorgon” (commissioned by LAS) will take place at HAU Berlin from the 13-17th September https://www.las-art.foundation/programme/gorgon Follow Marianna Simnett: https://www.instagram.com/marianna...

On Sunday (28 Aug 2023), climate activists blocked the road to Burning Man , demanding that the festival—which was founded on principles of decommodification, radical self-reliance, and civic responsibility—ban single-use plastics and private jets. While the protest delayed a relatively small amount of physical traffic for less than an hour, it seized swathes of the online space for days given the...

This is an intermediate guide to weight lifting. Week 1 Read Catherine Liu: Virtue Hoarders (2021), University of Minnesota Press Introduction (pages 1-16) Chapter 1: “Transgressing” the Boundaries of Professionalism (pages 17-34) Listen Catherine Liu on the Professional Managerial Class - Monday Incline Bench Press (Smith Machine) 3 x 10 Chest Press Machine 3 x 10 High to Low Cable Fly 3 x 10 Dum...

Three members of the Collapsology / Crude Futures group — Richard Hames (co-author of The Rise of Ecofascism , Polity, 2022), Washington-state based writer Beau-Caprice Vetch, and UK-based producer/writer/DJ Jake Colvin (NKC) — discuss the idea of collapse, its historical role in consolidating power, its geopolitical vs. biopolitical registers, its relationship to spirituality, and frameworks for...

We’re at an inflection point for social media. Here’s what happens next: joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/the-platform-wars www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-82710977

Artist Trevor Paglen speaks with New Models about systems of “influence” past and present – pointing to a transition from a world of surveillance capitalism that is potentially becoming one of PSYOPS capitalism. This conversation follows Paglen’s parallel 2023 exhibitions “Hide the Real, Show the False” at n.b.k. Berlin and “You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS” at Pace Gallery in New York. For more:...

Yancey joins me to discuss the “Dark Forests” of the internet. We explore new, post-platform guilds and digital native institutions for the 21st century. Browse the links below for his excellent writing on these topics: Follow: twitter.com/ystrickler twitter.com/metalabel_xyz www.instagram.com/metalabel_xyz/ Read: onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest…et-7dc3e68a7cb1 www.metalabel.xyz/magazine/featur...

In advance of NM’s 0.5 Decade anniversary event at Trauma Bar und Kino this Friday, LIL INTERNET reflects on how media — and the world — have changed since we launched New Models in 2018. [Scroll down for Berlin Event Schedule] Works cited: “Brad Troemel, "The Literalists,” 2023; Venkatesh Rao, “Unnarratibility,” 2023, Ribbonfarm; Jean-François Lyotard, “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowl...

https://twitter.com/babygravy9/status/1682799348571152384?s=46&t=jW_xfAX0j6Fjiv2ObgRGRg https://store.donotresearch.net/ The Neo-Amish Movement: How To Preserve Tradition in a Technological World – Gab News I'm Trans a few words about ted kaczynski Up Next Is America Too Racist for Social Democracy? — Touré Reed

My guest is a 16 year old council communist. He spent ages 12 to 14 fully immersed in conservative content on YouTube. Today his account is no longer active. **recorded: Oct 13, 2020**

With his exhibition “ Metaverse Landscapes ” on view through July 16th at Kunstverein Hannover, Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny joins NM to speak about his recent foray into landscape painting and his use of this art historical device to distill present-day motions to domesticate and financialize new territory—both in the digital realm and beyond it. For more:  Tw: @dennnnnnnnny &...

Taylor joins me to discuss the creator economy, mommy bloggers, personal brands, beauty tutorials on youtube, and gamergate. Check out her new book: Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet. Pre-order: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Extrem…g-okCBU2Jqe4 IG: www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz/

Over the past two decades Shawn Reynaldo has operated in every corner of electronic music. His substack "First Floor", recently anthologized into his debut book, offers a refreshingly candid account of his feelings about the turbulent state of a culture in transition.  We dive into some of the choice essays from his book, reflect on some major shifts of the last decade, and attempt a COVID po...

NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of Forever Maga...

https://artreview.com/ai-art-and-the-problem-of-consent/ https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/can-democracy-survive-polycrisis-artificial-intelligence-climate-change-ukraine-war-by-george-soros-2023-06 Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn’t? - G. Richard Scott My first live show out of context (Jreg's Theory Of Everything) Online politics is annoying GLOBAL ART FORUM 16: UN...

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist who’s been thinking, publicly, about the industrial capture of creative labor markets since the ‘90s. In Berlin last week touring his newest book, the NYTimes bestselling, anti-finance finance thriller Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) and to present at the re:publica conference with his Chokepoint Capitalism (Beacon,...