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The implosion of legacy media structures with the shift from top-down publishing and broadcasting to decentralized distribution, and the rise of audience-user as laborer have completely altered the terms of attention and cultural power. This past Friday (18 Nov. 2022), Carly & Lil Internet delivered a keynote on this transition from linear to holographic media for the “Future of Criticism” con...

Bro, is science even real? Epic crossover event of economic base vs. ideological superstructure. Nate Sloan, host of the Pneumatic Materials podcast, joins me to discuss mysticism, rationality, christ, the demiurge, geo-engineering, the incomplete project of the enlightenment and the shifting meta-frames for today’s political reality. https://www.patreon.com/pneumaticmaterials   https://www.i...

What exists beyond America’s blue-checkmark core? Journalist JAMES POGUE ( Harper’s, New Yorker, American Conservative , plus author of the 2022 Vanity Fair chartbuster “ Inside the New Right: Where Peter Thiel is Placing His Biggest Bets ,” as well as his 2018 book, Chosen Country ) joins NM just before the 2022 midterm elections to sketch out the emergent USA he sees. Along the way, we talk loca...

We catch up with Moisés Horta Valenzuela (Hexorcismos) to discuss his remarkable experiments with music and machine learning, and his upcoming software project Semilla that experiments with co-ownership of musician AI models shared for anyone to use. Just...the best. Listen to Hexorcismos: https://hexorcismos.bandcamp.com/ Follow Hexorcismos: https://twitter.com/hexorcismos Check out Semilla: http...

Jen Pan, former host of the Jacobin Show, joins me to discuss YouTube political messaging, elite activist language and what social democracy can do for art. Stay tuned for her forthcoming book from Verso. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMag   Read: https://jacobin.com/

Primavera De Filippi of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society joins us to discuss her economic experiments, her groundbreaking art project Plantoid, her novel concept on Extitutional theory, and her current thoughts on the state of crypto. Follow Primavera: https://twitter.com/yaoeo?lang=en An Introduction to Extitutio...

In Berlin with parallel shows at Galerie Sprüth Magers and Schinkel Pavillon, artist JON RAFMAN joins NM to speak about collective memory, the fractured self, embracing the cringe of new consumer tech, and post-net art’s post-lockdown resurgence. For more: IG: @jonrafman https://jonrafman.com/ Fall 2022 shows @ Sprüth Magers & Schinkel Pavillon

Hi everyone! Back in the saddle after an enforced little break prompted by a peculiar cluster of medical scare, pregnancy and founding a new organization. What a wild year. Thrilled to host James Bridle to discuss his recent book on ecologies of non-human intelligence "Ways of Being", animal sensing and co-operation, deliberative democracy, the singing origins of language, cybernetics, and a great...

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...