Berkeley-based writer and co-host of the wildly popular anti-corruption podcast TrueAnon, LIZ FRANCZAK joins New Models for a cathartic reflection on pandemic politics and the pros, cons, and probability of popular revolt. This conversation was recorded March 25th.

The Joshua Citarella Podcast series is the project of Joshua Citarella, an artist researching memes, ideology and online political subcultures.

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

Linkonia was a role-playing game and nation simulation conducted over Instagram from 2018 to 2019. The game featured dozens of part-time participants and incorporated the democratic inputs of hundreds of followers by allowing them to vote via Instagram stories. To my knowledge, this is the most extensive world building exercise and political exploration of its kind. Upon conclusion, the story was archived in a series of publicly available Google docs which are reproduced here. The game was primarily organized by Lincoln, then aged 16-17, who served as the Game Master and historian. He is the author of this text.

Trump Lies, XXXTentacion dies, and truth seems always just out of reach. Lil Internet, Caroline Busta, and Daniel Keller on lying, trust, and tribalism today, from blockchain to grifting, rap fan outrage to art.

We had the great pleasure of being joined by Jeffrey J. Kripal in conversation about how to lift the veil of Isis, the radical collapse of the subject-object structure, paranormal research, LaMBDA alleged consciousness, conspirituality, Esalen Institute and its impact on American culture and many other liminal topics.

Exposing 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.

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.

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.

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 ...

From the depths of the NEW MODELS DISCORD comes a new glossary for ASTROTURFING and related forms of soft-nonlinear warfare, collectively authored by members of an emergent group called Shifting Uncertain Situations (S.U.S.). For more context, NM hosts Carly, Daniel, and LIL INTERNET got on call with S.U.S. spokespeople Jak Ritger and Clack Auden to discuss these new terms of engagement.