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My guest is Ezra Klein. We discuss the emerging political faction known as Degrowth, the carbon crisis and the policy arc of the neoliberal period.

Online radicalization is the result of three key factors.

My guest is Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, the host of The Ezra Klein Show, and a co-founder of Vox Media. Klein is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a new book titled Abundance . We discuss his promethean, energy-rich vision for the future, polarization in the attention economy and the end of the neoliberal consensus. The authors propose a policy platform for env...

Writer and Nymphet Alumni co-host Biz Sherbert joins NM following the launch of her newsletter, American Style . Its premise is simple — travel around the country and talk to people about what they are wearing and why. On the show we talk to Biz about the transmission of style today, particularly in the USA and whether personal aesthetic transformations may be a stand-in for pursuing the erstwhile...

My guest is Adam Friedland. We discuss the ethics of platforming and the art of the talk show interview. For a few reasons, we chose to put this part of the conversation on the private feed only.

My guest is Adam Friedland, a stand up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of The Adam Friedland Show. We discuss the influence of alt-media, a farewell to Cumtown (RIP), the ideas & inspiration behind The Adam Friedland Show and his many social media controversies. How did comedians become recast as public intellectuals for the digital age?

Lil Internet purges his Musk Derangement Syndrome one last time in a monologue that could have been titled “Ket, Lies, and Video Games”—until a decades-long shift in base reality is revealed by dice in a Hong Kong bar.

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Briahna Joy gray. We discuss irony politics, the alt-media to organization pipeline, and our shared admiration for Star Trek utopia.

In this episode, Josh talks to three individuals who have done the Gateway tapes Chelsea, DJ, and Charlie. This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld . In the next and final episode, Josh speaks to a researcher who uses the pseudonym "JC Dentun" to explore Monroe's vast cosmology of the astral realm.

My guest is Briahna Joy Gray, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast. We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.

First published in Heavy Traffic V (Fall 2024), Mark Leckey's kaleidoscopic, transhistorical sojourn into the Eikonomachia  (the 'image struggle') is presented here in radio play form w/ sound design and production also by Leckey. This reading is part of Heavy Traffic ’s New Models residency, which features pieces from the magazine  read aloud by their authors. Heavy Traffic V  of i...

I’ll be honest — I wasn’t going to publish this part but I’m just a huge JC Dentun fan and this has got to be the some of the greatest 13 minutes of podcasting that absolutely blows my mind. Check out JC’s podcast: Pneumatic Materials .

Deep Research is a mini-series collaboration with Otherworld . In the final episode, Josh speaks to the researcher "JC Dentun" about the vast cosmology and beliefs of Robert Monroe and the circle of people around him that we learned about in Part 1. Jack writes: A big thank you to Joshua Citarella for going above and beyond with this series. He started exploring this many months ago, and quite fra...

British artist Mark Leckey — creator of famed club culture docu-hallucination, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), winner of the 2008 Turner Prize, and longtime NTS Radio host — discusses the terms of art-making in our technological present and our increasingly medieval relationship to representation. His show “ 3 Songs from the Liver ” was on view at Gladstone Gallery, NY, Nov 2024 - Feb 2025. “AI...

My guest is Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism". Neoliberalism is the most misused word in today's political discourse. In this episode we discuss the origins of the ideological movement. What is neoliberalism? When did it begin? How did it transform global politics?

Part 2 of this NM Greenroom features Amnesia Scanner ’s Ville Haimala & French artist Freeka Tet  discussing the work they do in parallel to their AS collaboration. For Ville, this includes developing scores and sound design with Anne Imhof  for her monumental performance-installations; while Freeka discusses his recent music video for The Weekend . In Part 1 (released 9 Feb 2025) AS...

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Will Menaker. We discuss “based populism”, the power of comedy in politics, and the realignment of counter-culture in America.

My guest is Will Menaker, a host of the ‪Chapo Trap House‬ podcast. We discuss the failures of working within the Democratic Party, the role of alternative media and a certain state in a certain part of the world. Can humor help us find truth within the online landscape?

Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala of the experimental music duo Amnesia Scanner  & regular collaborator Freeka Tet  join NM to discuss AS HOAX  (PAN, 2024) — both the making-of and the world into which the dual record project was released.  This is Part 1 of 2. It focuses on the Amnesia + Freeka project and its innovations within the post-streaming subcultural industrial...

Joshua Citarella begins his deep dive into the history and teachings of the Monroe Institute ("the worlds premiere organization for studying human consciousness"), starting with an expert interview with artist and acoustics expert Carmelo Pampillonio . This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld . This is the first part of a three part series. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 coming soon.

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Dasha Nekrasova. We discuss Trump’s historic victory, counter elites, the class interest of precarious freelancers and the state of creative industries today.

One week after the 2025 US presidential inauguration and less than a month since fires devastated LA, American journalist James Pogue  and energy specialist Ellie Holbrook  talk us through the current political terrain. James has been covering the New Right since the early 2010s. His back-to-back features this month on the Republican party’s uneasy Tech/MAGA alliance  ( NYTimes ) an...

My guest is Dasha Nekrasova, an actor, director and host of the Red Scare podcast. We discuss Trump’s historic win, Luigi Mangione and Dasha's political journey from a Bernie Sander’s supporter in 2016 to a Trump voter in 2024. What happens to political consensus when all narratives have now become alternative?

Penned during the dot-com boom/bust as a series of short stories before being published in 2005 as a complete novel, Charles Stross’s Accelerando animates the experience of technological evolution outpacing human comprehension across the (then) near and (still) far future. In particular, it plotted out — pre-generative-AI and pre-Bitcoin — the convergence of AI and finance and what human existence...

On the occasion of Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition “ A Coin From Thin Air ” at Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, Carly Busta and artist/writer Jak Ritger discuss art making, AI, and value in a time of infinite content. 02:45 - Intro by Amant chief curator, Tobi Maier  05:00 - Carly gives context on Fahrenholz’s practice 15:00 - Jak x Carly discuss the show’s works & themes  36:50 - Q&amp...