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Get the game: joshuacitarella.metalabel.com/class-fantasy Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. Your goal is to defeat other players in battle and achieve utopia. Inspired by games like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft, Class Fantasy explores the essential role playing and world building process th...

Through her work as an architect and scholar, Keller Easterling has been exploring the technology of the world beyond the screen, making a case for its information-density, the complexity of navigating it. In her fiction essay "NON_2," which is published in Heavy Traffic issue IV, readers (and now listeners) can experience material space as Easterling imagines it, made aware of the flows and...

Exploring the political arc of the social media decade. Get the books: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vince…ublicaffairs us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger Links: youtu.be/6FCYcfiVqYQ www.theguardian.com/technology/2024…n-attack-berlin www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-anarcho-liberal/ www.youtube.com/live/cI7iyo2wv18?…=ilEl4ylOge0bJ8kf

My guest is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and an early investor in FaceBook. We discuss his interest in the downtown Manhattan literary scene and the role of philanthropy in the 21st century. Follow: https://twitter.com/peterthiel https://twitter.com/foundersfund Get the Book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zero-to-one-peter-thiel/1115559270

With her pop thriller Scrap (Sceptre Books) out this month in the EU & UK, author and artist Calla Henkel returns to New Models to speak about her process, practice, and recent move to the epicenter of narrative production that is Los Angeles, California. A long time denizen of Berlin where, with Max Pitegoff, she ran Times Bar , New Theater, and TV Bar, Henkel reflects on the creation of art...

How does media actually work in 2024, which is to say in a time of omnipresent AI? And what kind of subject is this era of media producing? On this ep, we speak with K Allado-McDowell —the author, with GPT-3, of Pharmako-AI , Amor Cringe , and Air Age Blueprint , and founder of the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI—about how media is evolving. Specifically, we ask about rise of “...

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Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes unpack historical resonances between territory, abstraction and financialization. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/arts/design/simon-denny-art-computers-gaming-review-musk-grimes.html https://www.instagram.com/sden023/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/juliaxgulia/ https://www.instagram.com/joshuacitarella/ https://www.instagram.com/dunkunsthalle/ https://...

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/...