Episodes

  • Platform Cooperation w/ Austin Robey

    Platform Cooperation w/ Austin Robey
    May 1 2024
    Austin Robey, co-founder of Metalabel, joins me to discuss alternative models for the internet. We explore “Ampled”, a cooperative platform for musicians that existed from 2018-2023 and theorize about the next generation of platforms. Follow: https://twitter.com/austinrobey_
https://www.instagram.com/michaelcoors/ https://twitter.com/metalabel_ https://www.instagram.com/metalabel__/ Read: https://austinrobey.xyz/
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    52 mins
  • Class Fantasy Game: Introduction

    Class Fantasy Game: Introduction
    Apr 17 2024
    Get the game: https://joshuacitarella.metalabel.com/class-fantasy Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. Your goal is to defeat other players in battle and achieve utopia. Inspired by games like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft, Class Fantasy explores the essential role playing and world building process that links the game space and the real world. Finally, a game that unites the whole political spectrum (and family) by forcing them into irreconcilable conflict.
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    24 mins
  • Eco-Extremism + Anarcho-Liberalism

    Eco-Extremism + Anarcho-Liberalism
    Apr 2 2024
    Exploring the political arc of the social media decade. Get the books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/if-we-burn/9781541788985/?lens=publicaffairs https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger Links: https://youtu.be/6FCYcfiVqYQ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/05/leftwing-vulkan-group-claim-responsibility-tesla-factory-pylon-arson-attack-berlin https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-anarcho-liberal/ https://www.youtube.com/live/cI7iyo2wv18?si=ilEl4ylOge0bJ8kf
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    50 mins
  • Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes

    Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes
    Mar 13 2024
    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 https://www.instagram.com/sden023/ https://www.instagram.com/juliaxgulia/ https://www.instagram.com/joshuacitarella/ https://www.instagram.com/dunkunsthalle/ https://www.instagram.com/petzelgallery/ https://www.instagram.com/sorry_press/ https://www.sorry-press.com/landscapes https://dunkunsthalle.substack.com/p/simon-denny-exhibition-read-write https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/simon-denny5 https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/multi-user-dungeon-mud
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    40 mins
  • Return of the Internet w/ Paige K.B.

    Return of the Internet w/ Paige K.B.
    Feb 29 2024
    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: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/cute https://poeticsofencryption.kw-berlin.de/src/html/Exibition.html https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/simon-denny5 https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/multi-user-dungeon-mud https://dunkunsthalle.substack.com/p/simon-denny-exhibition-read-write
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    30 mins
  • My Political Journey: B

    My Political Journey: B
    Feb 13 2024
    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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    16 mins
  • Daniel Keller on Techno-Acceleration

    Daniel Keller on Techno-Acceleration
    Feb 1 2024
    @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 https://twitter.com/__vaporware__
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    55 mins
  • My Political Journey: Linkonia

    My Political Journey: Linkonia
    Jan 17 2024
    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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    40 mins