Joshua Citarella Podcast
The Joshua Citarella Podcast series is the project of Joshua Citarella, an artist researching memes, ideology and online political subcultures.
Series Titles
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Kim Yo-jong erotic fiction, “His Brain? No. His Heart.” Brad Troemel’s Joe Biden meme, Chart of Truth, Elon Musk red pill post, Instagram mass bans, “The Slow Red Pill”, K-populism?, Biden weighs in on the great replacement & cultural marxism :yikes:, Horseshoe theory vs Triangle theory, Doug Henwood lives to post another day. -
Memes as Politics: Episode 05: Temporary Autonomous Big Igloo with Tankie Characteristics Joshua Citarella PodcastExposing the Emerald Empire (real), conspiracy tiers, Z-bellion, “big-igloo” gang, journo-bait, Hawaiian shirt nationalism, police & protestors on the same side???, CHAZ/CHOP, civil war 2.1, kink-shaming furries, taking the China-pill, flash-in-the-pan activism, anti-moralizer aktion, Adolph Reed vs the DSA, dissident right looking at the anti-woke left. -
Use code “JOSH” for Wayfair discount, Posadism (real), Tumblr tactics for the revolution, breadcrumbs in the pipeline, “weak signals”, Dunbar’s number, Harper’s Letter = Socialism, major bans & retroactive hate speech?, Peepee-propertarianism, CIA sabotage, Chomsky is the real red pill + a special guest cameo by Paul Joseph Watson. -
My guest this week is a 20 year old who started out on /leftypol/ in 2016 and joined a real world organization in 2019. -
the Killstream to Whats Left pipeline?, political refraction, hide your power level, fin-tech-dem-soc, politicization funnels, anarchists deplatformed (RIP), DNC coffin dance, Q&A; glowposting, memes > news, socialism w/o nationalism, monarcho-syndicalism, class spirituality?, Biden/acc, morality vs. scalability, blackpilled again.
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My Antifa Lover, year 1 of collapse, Netflix is a biblical plague, email @ usps .gov, notes on my article in The Guardian, Biden depoliticization in 3, 2, 1.., Destiny de-partnered?, memetic inception + tactics, :salute: Andrew Shuta for spotting the Cap Realism quote, deep down we all know Finland is best country.
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mini Chart of Truth (do not research), long tail politics, 5th position, @jonrafmancellectuals, platform capitalist realism, the Trotskyist to Neocon pipeline (real) -
Utah monolith = McCrakenist Posadism, post-election dis-info deep dive, Laura Loomer walked so Marjorie Taylor Greene could run, the two conspiracies in American society & forecasting realignment. -
My guest is a 17 year old Marxist.
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Mega-giant new year’s episode on the future of the channel. -
Welcome to season 2 of Memes as Politics. -
My guest is a Post-Marxist.
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Part of the extended program for “Left Futures” hosted by Bas Fisher Invitational, Jan. 28th – Mar. 12 of 2021, in Miami, FL. “After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair and Restoration” by Holly Jean Buck. Verso, 2019 Left Futures is a part of WATERPROOF MIAMI in partnership with the Bridge Initiative, check basfisherinvitational.com, waterproofMIA.com or bridgeinitiative.org for more info. -
Josh recaps: edgy tweets from left-wing media figures, kids in cages with reverse timelines, right-wing influencers in shambles & actually existing in-game socialism. -
Douglas Lain, author and publisher at Zer0 Books, joins me to discuss his recent (maybe) “shadowban”. -
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. -
DNR community researchers Davidy, Holly & Margo join me to discuss the “Lindy Effect” and more. -
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. -
Dorian visits the stream to investigate gay frogs. -
Holly, Davidy & Josh take a deep dive into milk wars, seed oils, plastics and the taint.
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Choose Your Future, 2021, is part of KW Digital: Open Secret, 16 July – 31 December. In 2021, I commissioned a group of artists and memers to write short wiki-style descriptions of fantastical future scenarios. Writers were instructed to copy/paste existing wikipedia entries and “play mad libs” with the nouns and dates. Drawing on movements from the past, these short stories recombine political history to anticipate long tail ideologies and factions that may soon emerge. Choose Your Future takes the hyperbolic imaginings of young people, raised on the internet, and puts their words directly into the mouths of content creators. In this ... -
Building on his research for his landmark 2018 publication Politigram & the Post-left, artist Joshua Citarella has been conducting a series of interviews with Gen Z users who post radical political content on social media, as part of a forthcoming Rhizome commission. This event brought together three of the most sophisticated figures he has encountered through this research, all of whom are associated with the fragmented online communities known as “post-Left.” For the event, each participant was asked to prepare micro-lectures describing possible and preferred scenarios for politics and society over the next twenty-five years, and to comment on the role of internet culture in shaping ... -
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. -
My guest is a 20 year old communist. -
Dorian visits the stream to investigate conspiracy theory & the federal reserve. -
My guest is a 22 year old anti-imperialist. -
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. -
Greg Guevara visits the pod to discuss radical ideologies, mental health, artistic expression and political speech.
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One of the greatest comment threads ever.
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Caleb Cain discusses radical pipelines, counter-messaging, game theory and political factions. -
We visited an IRL theme park of Neoliberalism. -
Angela Nagle discusses Millennial values, Silicon Valley ideology, NGOs and moral fanaticism. -
For the past several years, artist Joshua Citarella has targeted his research-based practice on the political behaviors of the young and very online. Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman has similarly used his documentary practice to investigate emergent political modes like Seasteading. Together in When Guys Turn 20, they explore how users across the political spectrum deploy memetic tactics on social media, as well as how the rhetoric and reality of Silicon Valley diverge. Cycling through a variety of locales and roles (teacher, Twitch streamer, prisoner, Sith Lord), Citarella narrates online political methods and mechanisms of propaganda. From MMORPGs as a proof-case for socialism to ... -
Dean Kissick is the New York editor for Spike Art Magazine. -
Online content creators are now forming real world political organizations. DNR community members call in live for on the ground reports from: the Center for Political Innovation in Austin, TX and America First Political Action Conference III in Orlando, FL. -
Taking the orange pill, gamer-bait, elites without institutions, the “Declaration of Monetary Independence” (lol). Sean calls into the stream to share some reflections on the recent Bitcoin Miami. -
This episode is being jointly released by JOSHUA CITARELLA & NEW MODELS following a period of research on the status of cultural institutions and the future of post-Web2 creator communities. A New York based artist, Josh also has a podcast, a Twitch stream, and a Discord community (Josh’s Super Secret Sleeper Cell). He’s been a guest on the New Models podcast twice and joined us last year for a public lecture on Gen-Z’s political identity formation online. We’re sharing this conversation to let you see behind the scenes of how we are thinking about our respective platforms — and the ecosystem ... -
Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (2016) and Inventing the Future (2015) with co-author Alex Williams. -
Nik calls in from lock-down in Shanghai to talk art, aesthetics and nutrition. -
I visit NYC based artist Rachel Rossin to discuss new technologies, creative practice and keeping the light alive. -
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, an estimated 24 million dollars helped to fund 20 newly established art centers throughout eastern Europe. The SCCA mission was to archive “unofficial art” (works that were previously unrecognized by the authoritarian state) and to cultivate a new form of avant garde contemporary art with curious political overtones. -
Audio from the live event: June 6th 2022 at New Museum in NYC. Celebrating the launch of a new book by Do Not Research, an online community and platform founded by artist Josh Citarella in 2020. Described as a “detestable band of washed up millennial seapunks” (Lolcow) and “zoomers obsessed with Mark Fisher” (Buzzfeed), Do Not Research grew out of Citarella’s long-term research on Gen Z political formations and the internet. The project now features a highly active blog for writing, visual art, internet culture, research and more, launched in 2020. Do Not Research: 2021 – 2022 reproduces content from this blog: 143 ... -
What will the declining middle class mean for U.S. party affiliations in the near future? I speak with YouTuber and political commentator J.J. McCullough about his recent column in The Washington Post. -
I speak with Aidan Walker, a writer at KnowYourMeme.com, for the 67th issue of Meme Insider. -
Yung Chomsky joins me to talk physical fitness and left wing politics. We discuss the strategic importance of contested spaces online and why we shouldn’t cede this valuable territory to the right. -
From Anarcho-primitivist Instagram to local hardcore vegan straight edge. My guest talks eco-extremism, anti-work, climate collapse and the nihilism of extremely online communities. -
A unique look into online memetic subcultures where Gen Z teens explore radical politics like eco-extremism, neoreaction, anarcho-primitivism, transhumanism, anarcho-capitalism, the alt-right, the post-left, egoism and cyber-nihilism. -
Former basement dwellers discuss the shifting landscape of today’s social media platforms. We recap the art of posting (RIP) and how politics transformed pop culture, comedy and entertainment. -
Jen Pan, former host of the Jacobin Show, joins me to discuss YouTube political messaging, elite activist language and what social democracy can do for art. Stay tuned for her forthcoming book from Verso. -
Spawning.ai, 20th century bohemianism, the ‘brahmin left’ vs. the ‘merchant right.’ Join us to discuss how new technologies and class interests are shaping creative practice in 21st century. This episode is part of a new series of one-on-one conversations with Channel creators. -
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. -
People’s Republic of Walmart co-author Leigh Phillips joins me to discuss eco-austerity, neo-malthusianism, degrowth, socially necessary atmospheric carbon and the ongoing debate around economic planning vs. neoliberalism. -
My guest is a 16 year old Anarcho-Communist who was an Eco-Fascist in 2019. “R” is a co-admin on a popular leftwing meme account. The week before recording this episode she attended a Black Lives Matter protest in a nearby major city. We discuss neoliberalism, classical liberalism, esotericism, schizoposting, e-boys, accelerationism and mental health. Recorded June 9, 2020 -
I wrote the unthinkable (but true) take for the new issue of Document Journal. Read the piece online alongside a beautiful series of photographs by Bobby Doherty. -
Caroline Busta joins me to discuss how new technologies and ideologies are shaping the public sphere in the 21st century. This episode is part of a series of one-on-one conversations with Channel creators. -
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 effects of “anti-gatekeeping” discourse, speculative near-future museum defense strategies, the alt paths of younger artists, and what publishing models stand a chance post-2022. -
My guest is a 22 year old reactionary who is “extremely-online”. He was a Bernie supporter in 2016 and self-educated on sites like 4chan, Instagram and YouTube. We discuss authoritarianism, libertarianism, the enlightenment, neoreactionary theory, Hindutva, vegetarianism and shitposting. Recorded August 5, 2020
