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Hosts: Caroline Busta & Lil Internet
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Aug 31, 2023 • 1h 17min
Unlocked | How to Blow Up a Pipeline w/ Daniel Goldhaber (NM62)
First released: 08 Apr 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com
Adapting climate scholar Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021, Verso) for the silver screen, Daniel Goldhaber has transformed Malm’s non-fiction manifesto into “one of the most original American thrillers in years" (Roger Ebert). As it sees its US theatrical release this week, Daniel joins NM to speak about the film, the state of indie filmmaking, and the terms of politically engaged creative production in our over-mediatized, performatively politicized age.
For more: https://neonrated.com/films/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

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Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 7min
Unlocked | Crude Futures Spotlight w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch & Jake Colvin (NM69)
First released: 25 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com
Three members of the Collapsology / Crude Futures group — Richard Hames (co-author of The Rise of Ecofascism, Polity, 2022), Washington-state based writer Beau-Caprice Vetch, and UK-based producer/writer/DJ Jake Colvin (NKC) — discuss the idea of collapse, its historical role in consolidating power, its geopolitical vs. biopolitical registers, its relationship to spirituality, and frameworks for approaching adaptation to the worlds revealed in its wake.
The occasion for this conversation is the publication of a zine and card game that the Crude Futures group — which started in the New Models Discord server and also includes members Mina Miller, Jack Tarpey, phm, Matīss Groskaufmanis, Jon Benjamin Talleräs, Cat MacGregor, T.M. Wilson, and Marcelino Llano — created over the past two years and released this July.
Printing of the zine and card game was made possible through proceeds from the NM Codex Y2K20, and initial proceeds from the Crude Futures sales will go toward production of whatever NM-sphere initiative emerges next. The zine and card game are available at https://shop.newmodels.io as well as select bookshops in London and Berlin.
For updates on the Crude Futures project, follow https://crudefutures.substack.com and IG: @crudefutures
See also: NM 41 | Eco-Tomorrow w/ Sam Moore https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/nm-pod-41-eco-tomorrow-w-sam-moore?

Aug 21, 2023 • 48min
Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum
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

Jul 20, 2023 • 48min
Unlocked | Cannibal Corp w/ Cory Doctorow (NM66)
First released: 13 June 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist who’s been thinking publicly about the industrial capture of creative labor markets since the ‘90s. In Berlin last week touring his newest book, the NYTimes bestselling, anti-finance finance thriller Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) and to present at the re:publica conference with his Chokepoint Capitalism (Beacon, 2022) co-author Rebecca Giblin, Doctorow generously made time to speak with New Models about the entrenched, corrosive models driving what we’ll shorthand here as corporate cannibalism.
For more:
Tw: @doctorow
Blog/newsletter: https://pluralistic.net
Site & pod: https://craphound.com
Recent books:
Red Team Blues (Tor Books, 2023) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/redteamblues
Chokepoint Capitalism (Beacon, 2022)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 14min
Unlocked | U Wasn't There w/ artist & filmmaker Ben Solomon on inter-millennial NYC (NM65)
First released: 24 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
Joining this episode is Ben Solomon aka King Solomon aka KSER IRAK. Born and raised in downtown New York, Ben is an artist, filmmaker, and part of the legendary graffiti crew IRAK, which is to say a legendary part of the history of the city itself. We’ve wanted to have Ben on the show forever (in part because he and Lil Internet have known each other forever) but also because few besides Ben are better positioned to share stories about the social media that IS New York—both pre- and post-internet—and how it changed the way the downtown NYC works. (photo: Ilya Lipkin)
For more:
bensolomon.nyc
Tw & IG: @KINGS0L0M0N

Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 6min
Unlocked | Infinite Drake w/ Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon (NM64)
First released: 2 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
Few, if any, are more conversant in AI’s impact on creative production than HOLLY HERNDON and MAT DRYHURST. In part this is because the artist-musicians (and hosts of the Interdependence podcast) have also become, out of necessity, technologists. And perhaps it’s due to their DIY drive to not just comment on but actually build the tools and protocols artists need to more effectively navigate the 21st century that they are optimistic about it. In a conversation ranging from new baselines for Art to the future terms of IP and the horizons of identity and ownership, Mat and Holly share frameworks and neologisms unlocking a fresh framework for thinking about the AI-enhanced culture to come.
For more:
Tw: @matdryhurst & @hollyherndon
https://patreon.com/interdependence
https://spawning.ai

May 24, 2023 • 58min
Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)
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

Apr 23, 2023 • 16min
Unlocked | NM Short: Lil Internet's Notes on "Belly" (1998, dir. Hype Williams)
The first and only feature from famed music video director Hype Williams (Missy Elliot, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” 1997; The Notorious B.I.G., “Mo Money Mo Problems,” 1997; TLC, “No Scrubs,” 1999), Belly is a ‘90s crime drama set in NYC starring Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Method Man, and T-Boz with cameos by Sean Paul, Method Man and others.
Upon its release, the movie was widely panned and, due to its negative, violent depictions of young black men, the Magic Johnson Theater chain even refused to screen it. But 25 years later, Belly stands as a resonant distillation of its time, both stylistically and sociologically.
New Models chose to screen Belly for the monthly NM x Trust Kino night in Berlin last week. And for this event Lil Internet, a video director himself (Beyoncé, “No Angel,” 2013; Diplo, “Express Yourself,” 2012; Iggy Azalea, “Mo Bounce,” 2017) put together some contextualizing thoughts on Belly, which he read IRL before the screening. He's adapted his notes for this NM Short.
For more:
@lilinternet https://soundcloud.com/lilinternet/dmx-prayer-monument-ambient?

Apr 13, 2023 • 1h 2min
Unlocked | Public Access w/ artist Cory Arcangel (NM58)
First released: 11 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
Artist Cory Arcangel joins New Models to chat about his practice at large during the closing days of his Kunstverein Hamburg show, “Flying Foxes.” The conversation originally aired as live video via the Kunstverein, with an intro by the show’s curator, Nicholas Tammens.
The audio has been adapted by Lil Internet for the NM Audio Metaverse™.
For more:
https://coryarcangel.com
Cory Arcangel, “Flying Foxes,” Kunstverein Hamburg

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Mar 28, 2023 • 30min
Unlocked | NM Dispatch: Dubai Diaries 2023 by Carly & Lil Internet
First released: 14 Mar 2023 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
In which Carly & Julian make their first visit to Dubai and return with a new world module installed on their mental hard drives.
Many thanks to Shumon Basar and Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum 16 “Predicting the Present” for making this trip possible.
Addt'l reading: Shumon Basar, “The Magic Kingdom: How Not to Think about Dubai” (Bidoun, 2007) https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-magic-kingdom