New Models
New Models is a podcast about art, tech, media theory, and culture, exploring the impact of networked technology on life. Hosted by Caroline Busta and Lil Internet, the show offers free episodes on this channel, with full episodes available via Patreon or Substack. Established in 2018 in Berlin, it features discussions on contemporary digital culture.
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Preview | NM Dispatch: America Diaries (Lil Internet) - August 2026
Every summer, we return to the land of our youth, the Mid-Atlantic USA and, as has become tradition, relay our impressions of it to you. With this episode, @Lilinternet unpacks the 36 hours he spent just trying to get to the States, navigating a labyrinth of apps, regulations, platforms, self-ordering kiosks, loyalty programs, waitlists, dynamic pricing, seat assignments, Star Alliances and accele
Preview | NM 94: Simon Denny on defense tech's aesthetic turn (2026)
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Artist Simon Denny returns to New Models to discuss the American defense tech sector's newfound dedication to aesthetics.
Distilling the branding languages of companies like a16z, Palantir, and Anduril—which draw heavily on Italian Futurism, return-to-ord
Preview | NM Content Today: Taste (2026)
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When Enlightenment-era scholars taxonomized humankind, they chose homo sapiens, in part because of what they observed as a uniquely human aptitude for “taste.”
[“Taste” comes from the Latin taxare (to handle, to assess) – an intensive form of tangere (to
The Online Marketplace of Ideas w/ Joshua Citarella (2026)
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In recent episodes, you’ve heard us mention the project we created this spring with Joshua Citarella, together with the spatial design studio sub, for “Strange Rules” at Palazzo Diedo, Venice. On this episode, we chat with Josh about this work. The exhibition, which was curated by
Preview | NM Talkcore: Steven Warwick on making music in the time of content (2026)
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We talk a lot on this show about the “content” layer being compromised; how, given the physics of the feed, the creative act increasingly happens at the protocol level. While this is true, good books and films
Preview | NM Greenroom: VICE magazine’s Ben Ditto & Kevin Lee Kharas (2026)
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"Anyone that claims they understand the world — this immediately marks them out as a fraud."
— Kevin Lee Kharas
After the imperial collapse (40 global offices, thousands of employees, bankruptcy), VICE magazine is now run b
Preview | Theorists Daniël de Zeeuw & Sal Hagen on the post-discursive web (NM 93) 2026
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We’re joined by media scholars Daniël de Zeeuw & Sal Hagen, who have been closely tracking the weirder end of the internet for over a decade—their research and analysis of 4chan has made them low-key legends within internet studies. As 4chan’s logic is no
Unlocked | Scholar Peli Grietzer updates his 2017 "Theory of a Vibe" (NM92) 2026
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We speak often in the New Model sphere about scanning and sensing rather than reading—communication through vibes. Peli Grietzer is a comparative literature PhD (Harvard) who has spent over a decade developing a rigo
Preview | NM Greenroom: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff on New Theater Hollywood (2026)
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Back in Berlin to show their new film work “The End of Theater” at Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, artists Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff drop by New Models to chat about that film’s primary set: New Theater Hollyw
Unlocked | NM Reads: Gideon Jacobs, "MAGA as Fan Fiction," LA Review of Books (2026)
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Gideon Jacobs returns to NM with his third essay in a trilogy for the LA Review of Books that tracks, in real-time, the American Political machine’s delamination from everyday life through runaway story-drive. In
Preview | NM Dispatch: America Diaries Winter 2026 (Lil Internet)
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A psyche-delic meditation by Lil Internet on what it means to live among multiple competing intelligences—and the urgent need to develop new rituals for engaging with them before capital-mind fentafies us all into extinction.
"I no longer saw the highway, I felt it, viscerally, overw
Preview | NM Talkcore: Jay Springett on "Slop Machines of Loving Grace" (2025)
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You’ve heard us reference the work of Jay Springett (aka @thejaymo) on nearly every pod this year — so with his new book Slop Machines of Loving Grace near completion, we invited Jay on the show to chat through some of its themes. The book takes 2008 as a breaking point, a moment wher
Unlocked | NM Reads: Neo-Orality 1 (Jacqueline Fendt)
“Neo-orality” has been an important term in the New Models zone this year—but what exactly do we mean by it?
With this two-part episode of NM Reads, we bring you two papers by the scholar Jacqueline Fendt, who is Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at ESCP Business School in Paris, and—to the best of our knowledge—the first to define “neo-oral” in the way that we’ve come to use i
Preview | Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung on Jankspace (NM91) 2025
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With their latest video essay, Welcome to Jankspace, Babes (2025) now streaming on DIS.art, Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung come on the show to speak about what happens to the world and critically, all of us, our bodies, as capitalism lifts off from the human layer.
Daniel Felstead lea
Preview | NM Greenroom: Olivia Kan-Sperling on "Little Pink Book" (2025)
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Olivia Kan-Sperling joins to talk about her recent work, "Little Pink Book: A Bad Bad Novel" (Archway Editions, 2025). "It’s like girl, China, sex, postmodernism, conceptual romance—a book that sells itself to you over and over and over again as you read it,” she remarks. Published in
Unlocked | NM Talkcore: Kevin Munger on Spiraling (2025)
Are we entering a neo-oral age? For centuries, linear, text-based media has organized human communication, creating a shared reality, a shared sense of linear time. But as political Scientist Kevin Munger discusses on this ep of NM Talkcore, that ontological structure is rapidly coming undone.
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Watch: Kevin Munger on Vilém Flus
Unlocked | Exocapitalism, the Book - Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo (NM90) 2025
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Theorists Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo (co-hosts of the Dis.integrator pod) come on New Models to talk us through their highly anticipated new book, Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits, which is out this month
Unlocked | NM Greenroom: Frost Children (2025)
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In advance of their new album SISTER—out Sept 12 via True Panther and Dirty Hit—EDM emo pop punk crunkcore electroclash dubstep screamo trance DJs, producers, and siblings Angel and Lulu AKA the @FrostChildren join NM to talk about m
Preview | NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Media, Politics, and Ketaphysics (2025)
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Writer Gideon Jacobs joins to discuss ontological literacy among other things in the wake of the assassination of American Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk, which in our assessment was not actually a political assassination.
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NM Presents: ILLEGAL GENERATION Vol. 2 by LIL INTERNET (2025) xx
A follow up to his 2024 mixtape, Illegal Generation Vol. 1, Lil Internet brings you Vol. 2 — a new hour of fresh “gencore,” which aired today on Mark Leckey’s monthly NTS radio show. [https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey]
“Compared to Volume 1,” Lil Internet writes, “Volume 2 feels closer to a truly functional example of what AI generated music might offer outside of joke songs and the emulatio
NM Reads: Excerpts from "What Is Contemporary Art For Today?" (Perić, 2025)
Gavin Brown, Caroline Busta, Joshua Citarella, Ben Davis, Jason Farago, Tobias Spichtig and Lloyd Wise read their contributions to “What Is Contemporary Art For Today?" (Perić Collection, 2025)
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Preview | Douglas Rushkoff, from Meta to Soma (NM89) 2025
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Our guest is American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. He is the author of such seminal books on digital culture and networked communication as Cyberia (1994), Media Virus (1995), and Coercion (1999); and numerous further titles including, Program or Be Programmed
Preview | Orit Halpern on Agentic Imaginaries (NM88) 2025
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Our guest is Orit Halpern: co-author of The Smartness Mandate (MIT Press, 2023); author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke, 2014); and Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden.
Often in discuss
Preview | NM Greenroom: Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko (2025)
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On this ep, NM is joined by filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko, who you may know as the director of films such as 0s and 1s, Wobble Palace, Spree, and most recently, The Code, which stars Peter Vack & Dasha Nekrasova and is currently streaming on Mubi.
Like much of Eu
Preview | NM Talkcore: Dean Kissick (2025)
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In town for an event with Matt Copson at Berlin’s KW, Dean Kissick stops by the show to talk about art, criticism, and self-performance as well as fire punks, AI monsters, vulgarity, Ye, and the death of the hot take.
Now based in London following a decade-lon
Preview | NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Musk, Trump & Fiction (2025)
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Gideon Jacobs joins NM to discuss his latest piece for the LA Review of Books, “Player One and Main Character,” which explores the logic of power in a time when some of its key agents are no longer operating in base reality.
Related: Lil Internet’s “Hallucinator’
Unlocked | NM Dispatch: Hallucinator’s Dice – Lil Internet (Mar 2025)
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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.
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[Excerpt from monologue]:
“A very
Preview | NM Talkcore: writer Biz Sherbert on American Style (2025)
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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 chat with Biz about the tran
Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Mark Leckey, “Enter Through Medieval Wounds” radio play
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 is out now. https:/
Unlocked | K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media (NM76) 2024
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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
Preview | NM Greenroom: Mark Leckey (2025)
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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
Preview | NM Greenroom: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Pt. 2 (2025)
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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 F
Preview | NM Greenroom: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Pt. 1 (2025)
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Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala of the experimental music duo @amnesia-scanner & regular collaborator Freeka Tet join NM to discuss AS HOAX (@pan_hq 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 + F
Preview | James Pogue & Ellie Holbrook on Turbo America (NM87) 2025
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// 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-
Preview | Jay Springett on 'worlds' as medium (NM85)
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Jay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to spe
NM Live | Busta x Ritger on Loretta Fahrenholz @ Amant, NYC 2025
On the occasion of Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition “A Coin From Thin Air” at Amant 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&A feat. Joshua Citarella, Den
NM Reads: Caroline Busta, "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" (Document, 2024)
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Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content
Written & read by Caroline Busta
Document Journal SS24
https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/technical-images-film01-angelicism-art-showtime-true-detective-shein/
What if, in a time of infinity content, a meta-reading of the shape and feel of content has
Preview | Artists Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on a new paradigm of artmaking (NM86)
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// In part due to the rise of AI-enabled systems, we are witnessing a shift in where and how the creative act takes place. It is a phenomenon that artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst have been grappling with for more than a decade through their music and their work with machine learning and its
Preview | NM Greenroom: filmmakers/actors Betsey Brown & Peter Vack (2024)
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NYC filmmaker-actor-sibling-duo Betsey Brown and Peter Vack join NM to reflect on the making and reception of their own and each other’s films, Actors (Brown, 2021) and www.RachelOrmont.com (Vack, 2024). Deliberately tuned to the affective frequency of the internet (desire, desperation, outrage), b
Preview | NM Talkcore: writer Gideon Jacobs on Trump as image
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// Writer Gideon Jacobs joins NM the day after the US election to discuss his essay “Trump l’Oeil,” which ran in the LA Review of Books, November 3. Opening with the images of Trump working at McDonalds, the piece explores what happens when images start conveying a realness that is untethered from
Preview | Remilia Quarterly editor, L. B. Dobis (NM84)
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// Remilia Corporation, founded in 2021 by Charlotte Fang, describes itself as an institution, a lifestyle brand, and an artist’s colony, among other things. As the group behind the influential and infamous Milady NFT project, Remilia also exemplifies a particularly contemporary artistic practice—one in which an online swarm algorithm-ha
Preview | NM Dispatch: The Jacket - Lil Internet (Sept 2024)
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// This NM Dispatch monologue by @lilinternet is not about a physical place but a region of the internet—the increasingly adversarial realm of online shopping.
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Somewhat relatedly, we put together this product shortlist of baby items that we hope those new to (or curious about) early parenthood might find useful. https://www.newmodels.i
Preview | NM Talkcore: author Alex Kazemi
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// With this first episode of NM Talkcore we speak with Alex Kazemi, author of New Millennium Boyz (2023). In doing so, we bring back the format of NM TopSoil, a freeform conversation about things that are mutually top-of-mind. For this ep, that includes, among other items: personal branding and the book pu
Preview | Paz de la Huerta & Bjarne Melgaard in conversation (NM83)
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// A few weeks ago, artist and friend of New Models, Bjarne Melgaard reached out with an episode proposal. He'd become close with actor and artist Paz de la Huerta, whose debut solo show had just closed at Rutkowski;68 Gallery in Paris. Bjarne had been painting Paz for a ne
Preview | Journalist James Pogue on American Futures (NM82)
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// From AI to global power alignments to domestic political sentiments in the US and EU, 2024 is shaping up to be a frontier zone year of an era to come. Joining us on this episode is journalist James Pogue who is no stranger to the edges of the political present and unco
Preview | Psyberspace w/ Trevor Paglen (NM68)
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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
Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Olivia Kan-Sperling, “The Perfect Glove”
Olivia Kan-Sperling reads her non-linear fashion noir, “The Perfect Glove” from Heavy Traffic II
"Although a whole day has passed since opening, the plushy carpet shows no footprints. This must be the oft-reported death of retail, which reminds Leo of the death of movies, which reminds him of his own death. Then again—he cheers up—dead or no, neither—stores nor movies—ever seem to go away. [...]"
Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price "Machine Time" (Part 1)
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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 th
Preview | NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick
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// 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 le
Preview | The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)
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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 o
Preview | Loss of Distinction w/ art critic Ben Davis (NM63)
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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.”
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Unlocked | Code Couture w/ writer Olivia Kan-Sperling (NM60)
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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
Unlocked | NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq
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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 sma
Unlocked | How to Blow Up a Pipeline w/ Daniel Goldhaber (NM62)
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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, Da
Unlocked | Crude Futures Spotlight w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch & Jake Colvin (NM69)
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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 consolidat
Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum
First 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
Unlocked | Cannibal Corp w/ Cory Doctorow (NM66)
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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
Unlocked | U Wasn't There w/ artist & filmmaker Ben Solomon on inter-millennial NYC (NM65)
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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
Unlocked | Infinite Drake w/ Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon (NM64)
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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 thei
Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)
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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-2
Unlocked | NM Short: Lil Internet's Notes on "Belly" (1998, dir. Hype Williams)
The 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
Unlocked | Public Access w/ artist Cory Arcangel (NM58)
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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.
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Unlocked | NM Dispatch: Dubai Diaries 2023 by Carly & Lil Internet
First 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 tr
Unlocked | 4-EVER-DIS w/ Lauren Boyle (NM59)
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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
Unlocked | Mallhammer 40k w/ artist Jon Rafman (NM52)
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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 resu
Unlocked | NM Special Report: Paradigm Trilogy II w/ Kat Korbjuhn
First 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 a
Unlocked: America Diaries | AUG 2022 | Pt 2 by Lil Internet
First 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 sho
Unlocked: America Diaries | AUG 2022 | Pt 1 "Real Enginge" by Carly Busta
First 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, firef
Unlocked | Bonn Afterhours w/ Joshua Citarella & Dena Yago
First 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
Unlocked | Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue (NM54)
What 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
Unlocked | NM56 The Para-Real w/ Cade Diehm of New Design Congress
Digital 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-no
Unlocked | Model Shock w/ Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (NM48)
By 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
Unlocked | Creator Core w/ artists Joshua Citarella & Rachel Rossin (NM51)
Artists 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
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https://joshuacitarella.substack.c
Unlocked | GPT-Ditto w/ Ben Ditto (NM49)
Trained 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-t
Unlocked | Mise en TV w/ artist & writer Calla Henkel (NM47)
Calla 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-
Ricky Backtrace: Private Trend Consultant - Ep 1
Hardboiled 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)
Political 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’ out
Shady Miladys w/ Holyyyycow & Davidy (NM45)
Deep 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 devir
After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick (NM43)
Cultural 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 neologis
Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)
NM 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
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