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Hello everyone! Over the moon this week to welcome Professor Jason Edward Lewis and Suzanne Kite of the Indigenous Protocol and AI Working group! We discuss the origins and goals of the project, disputes over communicating with an AI elder, lessons about communicating with non human intelligences from various Indigenous groups, where utopian freedom of information ideas clash with ideas of self de...

My guest is a 19 year old left-wing islamic nationalist.

In celebration of his new book "Hope Runners of Gridlock", we chat to polymath Simon de la Rouviere about designing new economies, never ending stories, Metamodernism and maintaining hope! Buy the book!   https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/hope-runners-of-gridlock Follow Simon's writings! https://blog.simondlr.com/   Follow Simon! https://twitter.com/simondlr  

From the depths of the NEW MODELS DISCORD comes a new glossary for ASTROTURFING and related forms of soft-nonlinear warfare, collectively authored by members of an emergent group called Shifting Uncertain Situations (S.U.S.). For more context, NM hosts Carly, Daniel, and LIL INTERNET got on call with S.U.S. spokespeople Jak Ritger and Clack Auden to discuss these new terms of engagement.

Hi everyone, happy to share with you a conversation this week with The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, whose petition making demands of Spotify to improve terms for artists has gathered over 20,000 signatures and counting. We discuss those demands in detail, other initiatives they have undertaken and take the rare opportunity to have a conversation about living under streaming with other ac...

Back this week with a conversation with Artist Martine Syms on her extensive body of work, loops, Vine and Tik Tok, the burden of Archetypes, "Mundane Afro-Futurism" and Building Publics through publishing. Hope you are having a safe week <3 Links https://martinesy.ms/   https://fourthree.boilerroom.tv/film/mundane-afrofuturist-manifesto   https://dominica.la/  

Utah monolith = McCrakenist Posadism, post-election dis-info deep dive, Laura Loomer walked so Marjorie Taylor Greene could run, the two conspiracies in American society & forecasting realignment.

In this episode we welcome the full Audius squad, Roneil Rumberg, Forrest Browning and Clayton Blaha to discuss their new music protocol, how it establishes the rails for artist led, rather than centrally mandated, pricing and design of economic and interactive relationships, Soundcloud and the dangers of platform risk, and the ways in which we might drag people away from centralised platforms and...

My guest is a 17 year old Marxist.

In the advent of their new book “Pharmako-AI”, co-written with OpenAI’s GPT-3 system, we speak to K Allado-McDowell (and GPT-3) about creating with an inhuman (and a human), the nature and history of intelligence, and focussing art and technology towards healing. K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI , and are co-editor, with...

Crazy week eh ;P Let's talk about elitism. Also, buy Eliane's incredible book Elitism: A Progressive Defense https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/elitism-a-progressive-defence

Hi everyone Well what a week! Sorry this is a little late, it felt a little weird to release an episode during the election - but we didn’t expect for it to drag on this much! In this episode we welcome Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at the  University of Colorado Boulder , significant player in the platform co-operativism movement and the originator of the term “exit to community” W...

mini Chart of Truth (do not research), long tail politics, 5th position, @jonrafmancellectuals, platform capitalist realism, the Trotskyist to Neocon pipeline (real)

We join Sarah Friend, core developer from talk-of-the-town project Circles UBI to discuss the crazy few weeks they have been having trying to give away a UBI through social trust networks. We pull apart how the project works and discuss the history of local currencies, potential dystopian scenarios, "weird fatigue" and the turbulence of pursuing an art practice that involves building things that d...

Hi everyone! This week we welcome Dee and Jacob from Zora, a new organisation that is building tools for artists to issue tokens around their creative practices. We discuss their idea of dynamic pricing of art releases and at the advent of the musician RAC releasing his $RAC token through ZORA, the new space of artists and their audiences owning a stake in the value they interdependently create in...

My guest is a 16 year old who fell into a cycle of self-harm and right-wing radicalization on YouTube. He spent ages 12 - 14 immersed in conservative content online. Thanks to the positive influence of his sibling and a painful process of self-discovery, he has now joined the left.

This week we are thrilled to welcome the author and critic Huw Lemmey in celebration of his new novel Unknown Language , written in collaboration with Hildegard of Bingen and out now on Ignota books We discuss what it is like to channel the dead and write a novel together, Hildegard's visions and genius, constructed languages, and Bad Gays; Huw’s wonderful podcast with the historian Ben Miller. We...

  Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real...

My Antifa Lover , year 1 of collapse, Netflix is a biblical plague, email @ usps.gov, notes on my article in The Guardian , Biden depoliticization in 3, 2, 1.., Destiny de-partnered? , memetic inception + tactics , :salute: Andrew Shuta for spotting the Cap Realism quote, deep down we all know Finland is best country.

The second part of our discussion facilitated in collaboration with Sonar +D and Ars Electronica. Particularly excited to share this one, where we reflect upon what foundations of the club economy appear to be most exposed by the current crisis, discuss Richie's work with AFEM to help get producers paid, and speculate on the possibility of new and necessary economic relationships between DJ's and...

"A CONEY ISLAND OF THE VIRUS: COVID-19 IN NEW YORK" is an essay by the New York-based, Argentinean writer REINALDO LADDAGA, excerpted from a book he is writing about Covid-19 & NYC. The essay tells of physical geography, strategic cartography, and one city's urban planning as death machine on the generational timescale. https://newmodels.io/proprietary/coney-island-of-the-virus-reinaldo-laddaga Fo...

Hey everyone, happy to post the first of a two part discussion with legendary electronic music figure Richie Hawtin. This conversation was facilitated in collaboration with Sonar +D and Ars Electronica, and video of the second part of our discussion covering proposals for an interdependent club music economy can be streamed live at 18:30 CEST this Friday as part of Sonar +D's online programming. A...

Really happy to welcome Other Internet to the podcast, an independent strategy and research squad based between New York and Berlin. Their recent essay “Squad Wealth” looks at the phenomenon of interdependent squads emerging on the internet as a necessary progression from the atomized independence economy. We discuss Squad Wealth and their other incredibly useful conception of Headless Brands, the...

My guest is an anarcho-capitalist.

  Hello everyone If my voice is more reverberant than usual its because this is beaming from our new studio, which currently has no furniture, no electricity and no internet! We are hoping eventually to establish one or two of those things, and maybe even host some of these conversations live once we are all allowed to occupy space together again. In the near term, the good news is we have a new e...