New Models

First released: 29 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Situated amid political communication theory, social media information economics, and the vanguard of social science methodology, Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University) visits NM to share his post-2010s framework for understanding the future of networked culture. Kevin is the author of Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture (Columbia U. Press, 2022). And on this new ep, he discusses media technology’s role in the migration of big organizing concepts such as conservative, liberal, autonomy, and progress; as well as how technological change, which is inevitable, impacts the very foundations of literate/liberal culture. Bonus: Excerpt from Vilém Flusser's 1986-92 Artforum column, "Curie's Children" For more: http://www.kevinmunger.com/ “Why I am (Still) a Conservative (For Now)” (Jan 2023) https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-conservative-for “Why I am (Still) a Liberal (For Now)” (Jul 2022) https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-liberal-for-now NM46: Boomacracy w/ Kevin Munger (Jun 2022) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/boomocracy-w-kevin-munger-on-generational-power-in-america-nm46

What exists beyond America’s blue-checkmark core? Journalist JAMES POGUE (Harper’s, New Yorker, American Conservative, plus author of the 2022 Vanity Fair chartbuster “Inside the New Right: Where Peter Thiel is Placing His Biggest Bets,” as well as his 2018 book, Chosen Country) joins NM just before the 2022 midterm elections to sketch out the emergent USA he sees. Along the way, we talk localism v. globalism vis-a-vis 18th-century politics, 20th-century media, and the likelihood of 21st-century American civil war. Ep released to subscribers: 9 Nov 2022 For more: @jhensonpogue https:// jameshensonpogue.com

Deep internet A-listers Holly (@holyyyycow) and David Yoakum (@davidy) join NM for the only podcast about Remilia Co.’s ill-famed PFP NFT project you actually need to listen to. From 4chan to Kali/acc, Charlotte Fang to Ryder Ripps, we bring you this niche history so you can judge for yourself how the social web is re-aligning in 2022. Plus: new aesthetics, young girls, and Urbit x No Agency devirtualized in NYC. Subscriber release: 1 June 2022 For more: Holly’s essay “The Rise and Fall of Kali/acc” in the NM Codex Y2K20 (2021)

First released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of Forever Magazine, Madeline Cash; artist chloé waifmaterial; and full stack engineer slash man-about-town David Yoakum — to recap a cluster of events that transpired during Praxis Week, including the premier of Angelicism’s Film01, a reading at the new VC-backed Lower East Side event space Sovereign House, and the sudden onset of a climate event that amplified it all. For more: @davidy____ waifmaterial.com & @waifmaterial madelinecash.com & @madelinecash Related writing from NM sphere: - Madeline Cash reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Spike Art Magazine - Paige K. Bradley reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Artforum

Cultural savants Shumon Basar (The Extreme Self & The Age of Earthquakes) and Dean Kissick (NY editor of Spike Art Magazine) join the show during Berlin Art Week for a sprawling, late-night convo on communication and creative production in year 2022. Along the way, we note the accelerating pace of decades, revisit Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 mass-media glow-up, log a veritable dictionary of neologisms, consider whether the art market as we know is a historically bound concept, and ask if we’ve possibly reached the end of clear-cut, market-ready “generations.” Also: mid-ification, zentrism, eNFT portals, and adult drainers. [recorded 29 Apr 2022] For more: https://twitter.com/shumonbasar https://twitter.com/deankissick Basar, Obrist, Coupland’s The Extreme Self (Penguin, 2021) https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9783960989738 Dean’s column for Spike Art https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=search&input=dean+kissick&field_online_bool=All Dean’s 2021 essay for New Models & The Stolbun Institute, “Hello Darkness” https://newmodels.io/editorial/issue-3/hello-darkness-dean-kissick