Joshua Citarella

Politigram & the Post-left

The print release of Politigram & the Post-left is out today.
This final version contains additional chapters, images & untold story.

After many conv...

Jreg on Politics and Fandom

Greg Guevara visits the pod to discuss radical ideologies, mental health, artistic expression and political speech.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Jregory

https://twitter.com/mc_swm

2021-11-02 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Do Not Research at Odd Café

Do Not Research contributor Sjef van Beers invited our co-directors Abbey Pusz and 2021-10-27 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Taylor Lorenz on Gen Z and Social Media

Online public vs private spaces, web 2.5, platform capitalism, saving the children from unpaid internships, pre-crisis aesthetics, edgy teens, unironic conspiracies, shadowbanning and influence

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz?s=20

2021-10-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

New video series

I've just returned from shooting a new 3 episode video series in LA. 

"When Guys Turn 20..." is a collaboration with Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman. We will release these in the coming weeks on YouTube as well as 2021-10-13 15:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Not going back to teaching

Two weeks ago I posted a lengthy status update on Instagram about my decision to leave the university and become a full time content creator. Most of this text came from a yet to be released podcast with community member and DNR contributor 2021-10-06 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Studio Visit w/ Nadim Samman

Nadim Samman is a curator and art historian based in Berlin.
IG: @ nadim.samman

https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/open-secret/
http://joshuacitar...

Do Not Research, fall 2021

 DoNotResearch.net is our community blog for publishing essays, art, video,  poetry and internet culture research. Since we launched six months ago, we've published 72 pieces by 49 different authors and artists. Every contributor is compensated. Our commissioned texts are paid at market rate. This is only possible beca...

Zeitgeist w/ Dorian Electra

Dorian visits the stream to investigate conspiracy theory & the federal reserve.

Auto-experiment: Hyper-masculinity

Online conservatives claim that left-wing politics are the result of feminization caused by consuming everything from soy milk to tap water. And while there are endocrine disrupting chemicals in seemingly everything --a fact that should set off alarm bells for the left, right and center-- this feels like a mostly insufficient explanation.

In recent years, the internet culture wars have fo...

Mark Fisher & pathologies of the digital w/ Tom Krell (HTDW)

Check out the HTDW Program 2021:
https://www.patreon.com/howtodresswell 

https://www.instagram.com/howtodresswell/
https://twitter....

Syllabus: DoNotResearch, 2021-- fall

This syllabus is drawn from materials discussed in the DNR reading group, videos reviewed on the Twitch stream and films screened in the Discord. It is a crash course into some foundational ideas combined with a selection of recent links. Coursework is portioned out to ~90 minutes a week over a 12 week semester.

This class is formatted for remote learning. Most links connect you to materi...

Xenofeminism w/ Helen Hester

Helen Hester is the author of Xenofeminism (2018). She is a professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the London School of Film, Media and Design.

@ HelenHester
twitter.com/HelenHester?s=20

My Political Journey: @zoe4revolution

My guest is a 20 year old communist.

After the End of History, 2019

Speaking with 3 Gen Z lefty meme posters during a live event at the New Museum in NYC.
https://rhizome.org/events/after-the-end-of-history/

Micro-lectures published to the Rhizome blog:
htt...

Notes on the "Slow Red Pill"

Last week l published a piece in The Guardian. It circulated a lot. 

In just over 1 year, we've managed to take these topics from a podcast of ~1500 listeners to the #1 opinion piece in front of an audience of millions. We are successfully building a platform for this research material while putting forward an uncompromising analysis of meme culture from an explicitly left-wing persp...

Choose Your Future, 2021

This project is part of KW Digital: Open Secret, 16 July - 31 December.

http://joshuacitarella.com/chooseyourfuture/
https://opensecret.kw-berlin.de/
...

Do Not Research: Xenoestrogens

Holly, Davidy & Josh take a deep dive into milk wars, seed oils, plastics and the taint.

Chemicals in the Water w/ Dorian Electra

Dorian visits the stream to investigate gay frogs.

Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive (Oki's Weird Stories)
youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc

Guest pods & more

Guest pods:

I recently spoke to Holly & Mat at the Interdependence podcast. This is a rapid intro + recap of the last few years of work. Highly recommended for anyone who is new to the community. Interdependence will join us in launching Channel this fall. Very exciting.

• 2021-06-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Cloud Feudalism w/ Mike Pepi

Mike Pepi is a writer focused on art & tech criticism . His work has been published in Frieze, e-flux, SF MoMA, Flash Art, Art in America, DIS Magazine, Artforum,  Spike Art, Rhizome, and The New Criterion. 

This audio is from a lecture in the SSSC discord on March 21, 2021.

Memes as Politics: Ep 14.5: Anti-Capitalism from the Right

Casual episode. I share some thoughts on the current state of online radical politics: Instagram + YouTube. We catch up on the recent Lauren Southern video. And discuss the cultural war vs. electoral majority.

Ideology Iceberg

I thought this would be a short side project. But 15 hours and 39 minutes later, I feel very certain that we are the only people on the whole internet who have looked up every term.

The earlier tiers are straight forward enough. Its a good primer for people who are new to this world of fringe internet politics. The middle tiers get really weird-- really quickly. I think E...

Super Secret Summer Program

I've dedicated the last few years of my practice to an expansive research project; exploring the ways in which social media is shaping political ideation among gen Z. After many encounters with academics, researchers, organizers, consultants and journalists-- I feel confident in saying that no one else has the story quite right. Memes are aesthetic, political, historical, ideological, viral, in...

Do Not Research: Lindy

DNR community researchers Davidy, Holly & Margo join me to discuss the "Lindy Effect" and more.

Follow on IG: @db00ts, @holyyyycow, @ismargohere, 2021-05-19 10:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Notes on Political Influence

Last week I published a short piece in The Guardian, summarizing my thoughts on influence, content creation and its overflow into real world politics. I want to share some additional topics that were too disparate or nuanced for a mass audience.

• Post-Political Era

In the post-1989 era, we came up in a world without ideology. As young people now look to organize,...

Net Povera w/ New Models

This episode is a joint release alongside New Models.
We discuss: institutional failure, alt-media and the future of creator communities.

New Models is a news aggregator, podcast, publisher and online community.

For more:
https://www...

Memes as Politics: Ep 14: Average Outside Fan, Average Neet Enjoyer

intro by @rasterbahn_punished & @donotresearch

What  is the PMC? Listener Q&A, Ella Emhoff and the crisis of counter-culture now. My computer unexpectedly tanks midstream (RIP). The  conclusion (~38:00+) is my address to an MFA class at the end of last semester.

Shadowlands w/ Doug Lain

Douglas Lain, author and publisher at Zer0 Books, joins me to discuss his recent (maybe) "shadowban".

Music: "Starseed Junglist Anthem" by DJ Umberto Ecco 2k

Featured in The New Yorker +[Do Not Research] soft launch

In the last year I've had an on-going dialogue with journalist Nathan Taylor Pemberton on the topics of gen Z social media and counter messaging from the left.

The last few years have dramatically reshaped legacy, alt and social media. As mainstream platforms become increasing sanitized, made to work for big brands and establishment parties, counter-politics and counter-culture will move ...