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Happy to welcome Sterling Crispin back on the pod, who was in the news (and our collective feeds) a few times this year. We chat about his neuro-tech work at Apple for their Vision Pro headset, and do a deep dive into the Kojima-esque, "Rogue AI" Del Complex project, and their BlueSea Frontier Computer Cluster.  Following the crazy weekend in AI news, the schizo-corporate lore of this project...

A conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho. Building on the ideas of Tiqqun’s 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl , Andrea Long Chu’s Females and Bogna Konior’s work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the “Girlstack,” which, to borrow her words, models the “ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and...

Tomorrow we will be posting our regularly scheduled content, a conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho regarding her model for thinking about how power operates online, which builds on the category of “Girl” or “Young-Girl” as the digital sphere’s ur-subject. But first we wanted to share with you some reflections on the Israel-Hamas war and they way in which this tragic exchange has radiat...

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My guest is a 22 year old from the Middle East. She has spent the last few years immersed in political meme culture and radical content online.

Film01: Histoire(s) de l ’ internet is a work of cinema from writer Angelicism01 , whose often scathing online presence played a central role in the so-called vibe shift of 2021. Running 3+ hours, Film01 premiered this past June in NYC at Anthology Film Archives. It is composed entirely of other people’s footage—some submitted, most scraped from the internet—to tell a story of imminent extinction...

Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media. Read the full essay: https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/platform-wars-part-4-a-public-option

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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...

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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...