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Joshua Citarella

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Class Fantasy RPG

Class Fantasy RPG

It’s finally here — the perfect gift for your Maoist-Third Worldist nephew, doomsday prepper divorced dad or Q Anon yoga mom. For the past year, I’ve been tirelessly designing and play-testing a new MORPG (multi-player offline role playing game).

2024-04-10 12:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Eco-Extremism + Anarcho-Liberalism

Eco-Extremism + Anarcho-Liberalism

Get the books:

Vincent Bevins: If We Burn, 2023
Naomi Klein: Doppleganger, 2023

Links:

2024-04-02 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Peter Thiel on "Dimes Square"

Peter Thiel on "Dimes Square"

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
2024-04-01 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

240318: The Real Reason TikTok is Getting Banned, Adrenochrome Wellness, Musk vs. Lemon, more

240318: The Real Reason TikTok is Getting Banned, Adrenochrome Wellness, Musk vs. Lemon, more

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1769805936619606112

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/13/is-tiktok-banned-what-to-know/72957680007/

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Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes

Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes

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 

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Return of the Internet w/ Paige K.B.

Return of the Internet w/ Paige K.B.

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:
2024-02-29 11:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

get the book: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfc 

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Enter the Dark Forest

If you’ve managed to find your way here, you are likely familiar with the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. You may not yet know it by name but you know it by vibe. Dark Forests are online gathering spaces that are non-indexed, non-optimized and hidden from public view. They are ty...

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My Political Journey: B

My Political Journey: B

My guest is a 20 year old Marxist. At age 12, he began exploring niche circles of Tumblr, YouTube and Wikipedia.

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A Letter to Young Creatives

I originally gave a version of this talk to the MA Contemporary Art Practice Program at the 2024-02-07 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Daniel Keller on Techno-Acceleration

Daniel Keller on Techno-Acceleration

@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
2024-02-01 11:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

240122: CIA Gateway Process Explored

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf 

CIA full report on Brain Synchronization, Energy, Manifestation and the Holographic Universe 

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My Political Journey: Linkonia

My Political Journey: Linkonia

My guest ran a collaborative role-playing game that turned political meme accounts on Instagram into an MMO for fantasy nation-states.

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InfoGoop: Alternative medicines and supplements

All the Wellness Products Americans Love to Buy are Sold on Both InfoWars and Goop VIII, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, 48 x 34"


This is the last artwork I made before I left my old studio in Ridgewood, Queens. It was probably a wise choice because having a giant table of alte...

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Literally every link from the Twitch stream in 2023

Wishing you all a very happy 2024! This is our year and we’re all gonna make it (screenshot this).

I started Twitch streaming in 2020. A big part of this project has been sorting out the signal from noise amidst the ...

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Watch My Video Lecture

Watch My Video Lecture

This summer I traveled to FWBfest in Idyllwild, CA to give a talk about extremely online politics. This is the best recorded summary of my research and work over the last few years. You can watch the full video here.

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Amber A’Lee Frost on Dirtbag

Amber A’Lee Frost on Dirtbag

Her new book is out now from MacMillan Press:
https://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.

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My Book Recommendations 🎄🎁

People always ask me for book recommendations around this time of year. This December, I’m most excited for the debut book by Amber Frost: Dirtbag (2023).

In 2020, I left my teaching jobs at prestigious universities, like the School of Visual Arts and the Rhode Island School of...

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Benjamin Bratton on Artificial Intelligence (part 2)

Benjamin Bratton on Artificial Intelligence (part 2)

Philosopher of technology, Benjamin Bratton, joins me to discuss AI and planetary scale computation. Read his work and learn more about Antikythera in the links below:

twitter.com/bratton
antikythera...

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Benjamin Bratton on Artificial Intelligence (part 1)

Benjamin Bratton on Artificial Intelligence (part 1)

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:

https://twitter.com/bratton

https://antikythera.org/

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231120: United States of Amazon, JJ vs. Propaganda, TikTok vs Ben Davis, Spooky Castle, more

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2023/11/08/amazon-announces-new-benefit-for-prime-members-primary-care-services-for-9-per-month/?sh=6df7dbc37aca 

JJ McCullough | Pushing on an open door

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My Political Journey: G

My Political Journey: G

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.

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What I'm Reading

Tár (2022) directed by Todd Field

Social media has wreaked havoc on cultural institutions. Unfounded allegations pushed out a 2023-11-08 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Platform Wars (part 4): StateBook (Audio)

Platform Wars (part 4): StateBook (Audio)

Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media.

Link to the essay:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-4-90689173 

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e-deologies V, 2023

E-deology is an internet slang term used to describe complex ideological labels. These hyper-specific categories serve as a gamified form of identity play and niche personal branding in the chaotic landscape of online politics.

Libertarian Georgist Hoppeanism

Georgism is a...

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231023: F-scale (Authoritarian Personality Quiz), Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Spawning releases Kudurru, Pure Pwnage season finale, more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Pisacane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-scale_(personality_test)

https://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm...

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Platform Wars (part 3): TikTok & Geopolitics (Audio)

Platform Wars (part 3): TikTok & Geopolitics (Audio)

If you’re just joining us, check out The Platform Wars part 1 & part 2.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-3-87023598

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Platform Wars (part 4): A Public Option for Social Media

Welcome to StateBook. A Public Option for Social Media.

Beginning these debates over ten years ago, I used to joke that the United States should nationalize FaceBook and make it a division of the Post Office. If this was ever truly an option in the past, it seems highly implausible now. But the underlying provocation rings true and is more necessary than ever.

So lo...

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Dianna Lucia Dragonetti on Catholicism and the Operatic Voice

Dianna Lucia Dragonetti on Catholicism and the Operatic Voice

Dianna visits the podcasts to discuss trend cycles, faith, mythology and artistic practice. Hear about her upcoming performances:

https://diannaluciadragonetti.substack.com/

Send professional inquiries:

info-[at]-saras.world

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230918: Little Red Classrooms, Anti-billionaire Trump Rally, Media Bias Chart, Elite Over Production, more

https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ 

https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion/video/7265517143339404587 

2023-09-19 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post