New Models
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 111 ratingsPublic RSS | Art, tech, politics, pop culture, climate | Hosts: Caroline Busta, Lil Internet | Est. 2018. ( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ°)ʖ ͡°) | https://newmodels.io
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Preview | Psyberspace w/ Trevor Paglen (NM68)
June 03, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes - 52.8 MBFull ep released to subscribers: 10 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com _ 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 PSYPOS” at Pace...
Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price "Machine Time" (Part 1)
May 10, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes - 114 MBThis reading was first released to subscribers: 05 Feb 2024 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com“ 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 ...
Preview | NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick
March 13, 2024 00:00 - 24 minutes - 55.4 MBFull Ep released to subscribers: 08 Mar 2024 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com // 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. Th...
Preview | The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)
January 30, 2024 15:24 - 21 minutes - 49.9 MBReleased to subscribers: 25 Nov 2023 | For full episode, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com _ The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74) 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 “...
Preview | Loss of Distinction w/ art critic Ben Davis (NM63)
December 02, 2023 15:22 - 21 minutes - 48.6 MBReleased to subscribers: 17 Apr 2023 | For full episode, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com National Art Critic for artnet News and the author, most recently, of Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022), Ben Davis speaks to New Models about his recent essay “How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste.” For more: benadavis.com twitter.com/benadavis news.artnet.com/opinion/quantitat…esthetics-2276351 Art in the After-Cult...
Unlocked | Code Couture w/ writer Olivia Kan-Sperling (NM60)
September 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBFirst released: 27 Feb 2023 | To join New Models & receive our full stream in real time, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com This episode is nominally about the state of style but ultimately is about the changing media paradigm that underpins how we signal through sartorial codes in 2023. New York-based writer Olivia Kan-Sperling is our guest. She is an assistant editor and regular contributor to The Paris Review and her work has appeared in publications such as Interv...
Unlocked | NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq
September 05, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBFirst released: 31 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com On Sunday (27 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 d...
Unlocked | How to Blow Up a Pipeline w/ Daniel Goldhaber (NM62)
August 31, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 176 MBFirst released: 08 Apr 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com Adapting climate scholar Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021, Verso) for the silver screen, Daniel Goldhaber has transformed Malm’s non-fiction manifesto into “one of the most original American thrillers in years" (Roger Ebert). As it sees its US theatrical release this week, Daniel joins NM to speak about the film, the state of indie filmmaking, and the terms of politicall...
Unlocked | Crude Futures Spotlight w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch & Jake Colvin (NM69)
August 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 154 MBFirst released: 25 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com 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 fra...
Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY SCENE UPDATE w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum
August 21, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MBFirst released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of...
Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum
August 21, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MBFirst released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of...
Unlocked | Cannibal Corp w/ Cory Doctorow (NM66)
July 20, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 110 MBFirst released: 13 June 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist who’s been thinking publicly about the industrial capture of creative labor markets since the ‘90s. In Berlin last week touring his newest book, the NYTimes bestselling, anti-finance finance thriller Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) and to present at the re:publica conference with his Chokepoint Capitali...
Unlocked | U Wasn't There w/ artist & filmmaker Ben Solomon on inter-millennial NYC (NM65)
July 10, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBFirst released: 24 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Joining this episode is Ben Solomon aka King Solomon aka KSER IRAK. Born and raised in downtown New York, Ben is an artist, filmmaker, and part of the legendary graffiti crew IRAK, which is to say a legendary part of the history of the city itself. We’ve wanted to have Ben on the show forever (in part because he and Lil Internet have known each other forever) but also ...
Unlocked | Infinite Drake w/ Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon (NM64)
June 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBFirst released: 2 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Few, if any, are more conversant in AI’s impact on creative production than HOLLY HERNDON and MAT DRYHURST. In part this is because the artist-musicians (and hosts of the Interdependence podcast) have also become, out of necessity, technologists. And perhaps it’s due to their DIY drive to not just comment on but actually build the tools and protocols artists need to mor...
Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)
May 24, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBFirst released: 29 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Situated amid political communication theory, social media information economics, and the vanguard of social science methodology, Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University) visits NM to share his post-2010s framework for understanding the future of networked culture. Kevin is the author of Generat...
Unlocked | NM Short: Lil Internet's Notes on "Belly" (1998, dir. Hype Williams)
April 23, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 37.2 MBThe first and only feature from famed music video director Hype Williams (Missy Elliot, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” 1997; The Notorious B.I.G., “Mo Money Mo Problems,” 1997; TLC, “No Scrubs,” 1999), Belly is a ‘90s crime drama set in NYC starring Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Method Man, and T-Boz with cameos by Sean Paul, Method Man and others. Upon its release, the movie was widely panned and, due to its negative, violent depictions of young black men, the Magic Johnson Theater chain even refuse...
Unlocked | Public Access w/ artist Cory Arcangel (NM58)
April 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBFirst released: 11 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Artist Cory Arcangel joins New Models to chat about his practice at large during the closing days of his Kunstverein Hamburg show, “Flying Foxes.” The conversation originally aired as live video via the Kunstverein, with an intro by the show’s curator, Nicholas Tammens. The audio has been adapted by Lil Internet for the NM Audio Metaverse™. For more: https://coryarc...
Unlocked | NM Dispatch: Dubai Diaries 2023 by Carly & Lil Internet
March 28, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 69.8 MBFirst released: 14 Mar 2023 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com In which Carly & Julian make their first visit to Dubai and return with a new world module installed on their mental hard drives. Many thanks to Shumon Basar and Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum 16 “Predicting the Present” for making this trip possible. Addt'l reading: Shumon Basar, “The Magic Kingdom: How Not to Think about Dubai” (B...
Unlocked | 4-EVER-DIS w/ Lauren Boyle (NM59)
March 27, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MBFirst released: 19 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com As DIS returns to Germany for the first time since members Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro curated 2016’s hotly contested Berlin Biennale 9, Boyle joins New Models to talk about the generation-defining project’s trajectory since its inception in the late-’00s, its recent film installation Everything But The World (on view through Feb 26 at the S...
Unlocked | Mallhammer 40k w/ artist Jon Rafman (NM52)
February 19, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBFirst released: 14 Oct 2022 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com 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: jonrafman.com IG: @jonrafman
Unlocked | NM Special Report: Paradigm Trilogy II w/ Kat Korbjuhn
January 30, 2023 12:30 - 47 minutes - 108 MBFirst released: 22 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Creative director Katharina Korbjuhn updates NM on Paradigm Trilogy, the mobile-first editorial vehicle she launched in 2021 to address how the fashion-adjacent creative sector is changing. As Paradigm’s second release, “Man vs. Machine” is largely set in Berlin and features contributions from several denizens of the New Models sphere, we invited Kat to come ...
Unlocked: America Diaries | AUG 2022 | Pt 1 "Real Enginge" by Carly Busta
January 14, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 33.5 MBFirst released: 4 Aug 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us: https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com In lieu of the regular NM pods, Lil Internet & Carly reflect on their time in the USA these past 2 1/2 weeks—mostly in Maryland and Virginia—and the life/death cycles and spectrum of real/simulation that underscored it. Plus ex-urban home ownership, mass shooters, firefly technology, air-conditioning blight, new weather, dead vultures, La Croix’s disappearance, and...
Unlocked: America Diaries | AUG 2022 | Pt 2 by Lil Internet
January 14, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 58.8 MBFirst released: 7 Aug 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com In lieu of the regular NM pods, Lil Internet & Carly reflect on their time in the USA these past 2 1/2 weeks—mostly in Maryland and Virginia—and the life/death cycles and spectrum of real/simulation that underscored it, filled out by ex-urban home ownership, mass shooters, firefly technology, air-conditioning blight, new weather, dead vultures, La Croix’s disapp...
Unlocked: Bonn Afterhours w/ Joshua Citarella & Dena Yago
December 10, 2022 00:00 - 52 minutes - 119 MBFirst released: 10 Dec 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Recorded mid-“Future of Critique”-conference in the former West German capital of Bonn, this conversation with New York-based artist & consultant DENA YAGO (formerly K-HOLE) and artist JOSHUA CITARELLA real-talk-debriefs some of the structural models on which legacy criticism built its house. Topics include: the museum’s changing cultural status, the knock-on e...
Unlocked | Bonn Afterhours w/ Joshua Citarella & Dena Yago
December 10, 2022 00:00 - 52 minutes - 119 MBFirst released: 10 Dec 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Recorded mid-“Future of Critique”-conference in the former West German capital of Bonn, this conversation with New York-based artist & consultant DENA YAGO (formerly K-HOLE) and artist JOSHUA CITARELLA real-talk-debriefs some of the structural models on which legacy criticism built its house. Topics include: the museum’s changing cultural status, the knock-on e...
Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue (NM54)
December 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBWhat 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 localism v. globalism vis-a-vis 18th-century politics, 20th-century media, and the likelihood of 21st-cent...
Unlocked: Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue (NM54)
December 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBWhat 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 localism v. globalism vis-a-vis 18th-century politics, 20th-century media, and the likelihood of 21st-cent...
Unlocked | Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue (NM54)
December 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBWhat 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 localism v. globalism vis-a-vis 18th-century politics, 20th-century media, and the likelihood of 21st-cent...
Unlocked | NM56 The Para-Real w/ Cade Diehm of New Design Congress
December 01, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 95.2 MBDigital design theorist CADE DIEHM joins NM to discuss his new paper, “The Para-Real: A Manifesto” (published via C/O Berlin and New Design Congress), which gives language to a zone that’s become increasingly prevalent as digital spaces merge into continuous territories. The Para-Real is not the “metaverse,” Cade argues, but a fertile, momentary form of consciousness where the physical here-and-now falls away. We discuss what this state produces in users and speculate on nth order effects as ...
Model Shock w/ Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (NM48)
November 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBBy the end of the 19th century, cascading developments in science, theory, and philosophy were radically challenging the way Western society understood what it means “to think” — and how, in turn, this contemporary sentient human could be depicted. EMMELYN BUTTERFIELD-ROSEN, a scholar of late-19th and early-20th century art, and associate director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the esteemed Clark Art Institute joins us to discuss her new book, “Modern Art & The Rema...
Unlocked | Model Shock w/ Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (NM48)
November 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBBy the end of the 19th century, cascading developments in science, theory, and philosophy were radically challenging the way Western society understood what it means “to think” — and how, in turn, this contemporary sentient human could be depicted. EMMELYN BUTTERFIELD-ROSEN, a scholar of late-19th and early-20th century art, and associate director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the esteemed Clark Art Institute joins us to discuss her new book, “Modern Art & The Rema...
Unlocked | Creator Core w/ artists Joshua Citarella & Rachel Rossin (NM51)
October 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBArtists JOSHUA CITARELLA & RACHEL ROSSIN join NM for a freestyle audit of the 2022 art ecosystem. We discuss how the economy of cultural production, both on-platform and off, is evolving post peak-lockdown. Originally released to NM subscribers 23 SEPT 2022 For more: https://rossin.co/ IG: @rachelrossin & @joshuacitarella https://patreon.com/joshuacitarella https://joshuacitarella.substack.com Joshua Citarella, along with New Models, and Interdependence (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon), ...
Creator Core w/ artists Joshua Citarella & Rachel Rossin (NM51)
October 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBArtists JOSHUA CITARELLA & RACHEL ROSSIN join NM for a freestyle audit of the 2022 art ecosystem. We discuss how the economy of cultural production, both on-platform and off, is evolving post peak-lockdown. Originally released to NM subscribers 23 SEPT 2022 For more: https://rossin.co/ IG: @rachelrossin & @joshuacitarella https://patreon.com/joshuacitarella https://joshuacitarella.substack.com Joshua Citarella, along with New Models, and Interdependence (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon), ...
GPT-Ditto w/ Ben Ditto (NM49)
October 14, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBTrained in the twilight of legacy media and skilled in the dark arts of the extremely online, BEN DITTO bridges communication systems and cultural logics of the 90s-00s-10s and 20s. In advance of launching his new channel, Ditto Nation, the London-based creative-director/artist /cultural-analyst speaks to NM about the physical limits of the self and the technology that defines it, platform death-tripping, ML trend consulting, and the new magick of natural language spellcasting. Initial relea...
Unlocked | GPT-Ditto w/ Ben Ditto (NM49)
October 14, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBTrained in the twilight of legacy media and skilled in the dark arts of the extremely online, BEN DITTO bridges communication systems and cultural logics of the 90s-00s-10s and 20s. In advance of launching his new channel, Ditto Nation, the London-based creative-director/artist /cultural-analyst speaks to NM about the physical limits of the self and the technology that defines it, platform death-tripping, ML trend consulting, and the new magick of natural language spellcasting. Initial relea...
Mise en TV w/ artist & writer Calla Henkel (NM47)
September 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBCalla 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-mythologizing, LA lobotomizing, and the cringe self-help book secretly powering Berlin’s writing ...
Unlocked | Mise en TV w/ artist & writer Calla Henkel (NM47)
September 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBCalla 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-mythologizing, LA lobotomizing, and the cringe self-help book secretly powering Berlin’s writing ...
Ricky Backtrace: Private Trend Consultant - Ep 1
August 22, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes - 45.2 MBHardboiled 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
Boomocracy w/ Kevin Munger on generational power in America (NM46)
July 30, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBPolitical 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’ outsize influence wanes. Subscriber release: 30 Jun 2022 For more: Twitter: @kmmunger Substack: N...
Shady Miladys w/ Holyyyycow & Davidy (NM45)
July 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBDeep internet A-listers Holly (@holyyyycow) and David Yoakum (@davidy) join NM for the only podcast about Remilia Co.’s ill-famed PFP NFT project you actually need to listen to. From 4chan to Kali/acc, Charlotte Fang to Ryder Ripps, we bring you this niche history so you can judge for yourself how the social web is re-aligning in 2022. Plus: new aesthetics, young girls, and Urbit x No Agency devirtualized in NYC. Subscriber release: 1 June 2022 For more: Holly’s essay “The Rise and Fall of ...
After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick (NM43)
July 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 182 MBCultural savants Shumon Basar (The Extreme Self & The Age of Earthquakes) and Dean Kissick (NY editor of Spike Art Magazine) join the show during Berlin Art Week for a sprawling, late-night convo on communication and creative production in year 2022. Along the way, we note the accelerating pace of decades, revisit Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 mass-media glow-up, log a veritable dictionary of neologisms, consider whether the art market as we know is a historically bound concept, and ask if we’ve ...
Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)
June 01, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBNM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and other pre-www systems. From FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands, Kevin maps out this early territory, with a brief history of the...
Unlocked | ATOMIC USER w/ media studies scholar Svitlana Matviyenko (NM42)
May 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBScholar of media studies and Chernobyl expert Svitlana Matviyenko joins us from Kamyanets Podilskyi, Ukraine to discuss critical infrastructure security and the imminence of cyberwarfare. On this episode, Svitlana, who is also the co-author of Cyberwar & Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism (U. Minnesota Press, 2020) gives an expanded definition of “cybernetic warfare” and what she calls “communicative militarism”; connects psychological-operations with the post-war “commercia...
EP 42: ATOMIC USER w/ Svitlana Matviyenko
May 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBScholar of media studies and Chernobyl expert Svitlana Matviyenko joins us from Kamyanets Podilskyi, Ukraine to discuss critical infrastructure security and the imminence of cyberwarfare. On this episode, Svitlana, who is also the co-author of Cyberwar & Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism (U. Minnesota Press, 2020) gives an expanded definition of “cybernetic warfare” and what she calls “communicative militarism”; connects psychological-operations with the post-war “commercia...
NM GREENROOM Ep 5: Dances With White Girls (aka Frog)
May 01, 2022 00:00 - 54 minutes - 126 MBOne of the great millennial club demons, DJ and producer Dances With White Girls (aka Frog) talks to NM about the ever evolving relationship between artists and platforms, from Hollerboard to TikTok. We also talk how AI music software is changing the game, pop-up scenes, and PLUR black tie. Plus: Frog’s 12 Rules for Club Life. Twitter: @dances New Release: Repopulate Mars presents The Arrival Subscriber release: 8 Apr 2022
EP 41: ECO-TOMORROW (w/ Sam Moore)
April 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBWriter and researcher Sam Moore speaks about his new book, with Alex Roberts, THE RISE of ECOFASCISM: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FAR RIGHT (Polity, 2022), which finds, in the dissolution of pre-millennial frameworks for climate, capital, and governance, conditions that are ripe for the re-emergence of fascist formulations of power. We talk to Sam about the interface between humans and the natural world; the return of trad values; and strategies for climate change mitigation that short-circuit th...
NM Special Report: Kyiv Flâneur (Mar 12) w/ Vova Vorotniov
March 14, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 85.3 MBAs Ukrainian forces enter a third week of fighting off Russia’s full-force invasion, artist VOVA VOROTNIOV reports from Kyiv, sharing details from life in the city during wartime, a primer on corruption (both bad and "good"), and what terms he sees for possible resolution (spoiler: Russia go home). Image: Vova Vorotniov, Kyiv, 8 May 2022 For more: IG: https://www.instagram.com/vovavorotniov/ Telegram: https://t.me/proof_of_war Berlin-Ukraine aid on Telegram: https://t.me/ukraineberlinarriv...
NM Special Report: Digital Resilliance & War w/ Cade Diehm
March 08, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 81.2 MBNM Special Report: Digital Resilience & War w/ Cade Diehm On this episode, we speak with information security specialist CADE DIEHM of New Design Congress regarding digital infrastructure resilience in a time of network upheaval as the world responds to Russia’s escalation of the war in Ukraine. For more: Tw: @helveticade https://newdesigncongress.org/en/
NM Special Report: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Ukraine w/ @pdthorn
March 03, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes - 77.9 MBContinuing our context-focused Ukraine Special Reports, we speak with New Models member @pdthorn, whose career path includes working with Open Source Intelligence. OSINT both describes a field of research and its diverse range of publicly available information sources. As Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine this week, OSINT — particularly the constant drip of on-the-ground social media updates — has played a role in shaping the public-facing narrative to an unprecedented degree. We ask P...
NM Shorts: Indie Sleaze w/ Taylore Scarabelli
February 16, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 79.5 MBFashion critic and Interview magazine Senior Editor TAYLORE SCARABELLI speaks to New Models about the much-reported Indie Sleaze revival, sharing insights on its physical re-emergence in IRL NYC. Read Taylore’s related essay in Interview's March print issue (and via link below). Intro monologue: “Indieverse” by LIL INTERNET, co-written with Carly Busta. Outro music: SLUTTT x Passions "Dead by 25" (unreleased) Episode cover image: The Cobrasnake for Interview magazine, March 2022 For more: ...