New Models

One of the great millennial club demons, DJ and producer Dances With White Girls (aka Frog) talks to NM about the ever evolving relationship between artists and platforms, from Hollerboard to TikTok. We also talk how AI music software is changing the game, pop-up scenes, and PLUR black tie. Plus: Frog’s 12 Rules for Club Life. Twitter: @dances New Release: Repopulate Mars presents The Arrival Subscriber release: 8 Apr 2022

Writer and researcher Sam Moore speaks about his new book, with Alex Roberts, THE RISE of ECOFASCISM: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FAR RIGHT (Polity, 2022), which finds, in the dissolution of pre-millennial frameworks for climate, capital, and governance, conditions that are ripe for the re-emergence of fascist formulations of power. We talk to Sam about the interface between humans and the natural world; the return of trad values; and strategies for climate change mitigation that short-circuit the instrumentalization of nature as a tool for capitalist expansion and/or a race-based ordering of the world. Sam is also a co-host of the podcast @12rulesforwhat and leads the Collapsology group that meets weekly via the New Models Discord and publishes to http://collapsology.substack.com/ Twitter: https//twitter.com/sammoorewrites Pod: https://www.patreon.com/12rulesforwhat/ Substack: http://collapsology.substack.com/ Book: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-rise-of-ecofascism-climate-change-and-the-far-right--9781509545377 Book: https://dogsection.org/press/pifr/

As Ukrainian forces enter a third week of fighting off Russia’s full-force invasion, artist VOVA VOROTNIOV reports from Kyiv, sharing details from life in the city during wartime, a primer on corruption (both bad and "good"), and what terms he sees for possible resolution (spoiler: Russia go home). Image: Vova Vorotniov, Kyiv, 8 May 2022 For more: IG: https://www.instagram.com/vovavorotniov/ Telegram: https://t.me/proof_of_war Berlin-Ukraine aid on Telegram: https://t.me/ukraineberlinarrivalsupport Berlin-Ukraine housing: https://www.unterkunft-ukraine.de/ Outro audio via https://soundcloud.com/will-ponomarenko

NM Special Report: Digital Resilience & War w/ Cade Diehm On this episode, we speak with information security specialist CADE DIEHM of New Design Congress regarding digital infrastructure resilience in a time of network upheaval as the world responds to Russia’s escalation of the war in Ukraine. For more: Tw: @helveticade https://newdesigncongress.org/en/

Continuing our context-focused Ukraine Special Reports, we speak with New Models member @pdthorn, whose career path includes working with Open Source Intelligence. OSINT both describes a field of research and its diverse range of publicly available information sources. As Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine this week, OSINT — particularly the constant drip of on-the-ground social media updates — has played a role in shaping the public-facing narrative to an unprecedented degree. We ask PD about best practices for intelligence gathering amid a sea of disinformation, as well as his read on possible end-games for what may come in the wake of this war. For more: https://instagram.com/pdthorn_osint

Fashion critic and Interview magazine Senior Editor TAYLORE SCARABELLI speaks to New Models about the much-reported Indie Sleaze revival, sharing insights on its physical re-emergence in IRL NYC. Read Taylore’s related essay in Interview's March print issue (and via link below). Intro monologue: “Indieverse” by LIL INTERNET, co-written with Carly Busta. Outro music: SLUTTT x Passions "Dead by 25" (unreleased) Episode cover image: The Cobrasnake for Interview magazine, March 2022 For more: https://taylorescarabelli.com/ https://www.instagram.com/taylorescarabelli https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/the-indie-sleaze-revival-is-a-hot-mess#

Anastasiya Osipova, a scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-founder of Cicada Press, speaks with NM from Kyiv, sharing her first-person insights on the Ukrainian/Russian border conflict as well as what the prospect of war does to one’s ability to communicate clearly, and how that shift impacts a society over time. Recorded in 2 parts: Jan 29 / Feb 8 FOR MORE: • Cicada Press https://www.cicadapress.net/titles/ 

 • Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2021) 
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/the-gates-of-europe/9781541675643/ Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (Basic Books, 2017) https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/lost-kingdom/9780465098491/ • Shaun Walker 
The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (Oxford, 2018)
 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-long-hangover-9780190058845 • Stanislav Aseyv In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard, forthcoming)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674268784 LA Review of Books intwv/ regarding Aseyv's imprisonment in the Izolyatsia concentration camp https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/violence-and-hope-in-ukraine-stanislav-aseyevs-the-torture-camp-on-paradise-street/ 

 • notes on the right-wing and neo-nazi attacks on Ukrainian cultural venues 
https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/armed_dangerous/armed_dangerous-disrupt/ • roundtable w/ artist Nikita Kadan regarding Ukraine’s legacy of Soviet art https://www.pastfutureart.org/en/discussion-the-kmytiv-experiment • architect/artist Oleksandr Burlaka 
http://cargocollective.com/burlaka/bio https://www.instagram.com/maidan_nezalezhnosti • writer Yevgenia Belorusets 
https://www.ndbooks.com/author/yevgenia-belorusets/ https://www.isolarii.com/ https://belorusets.com/info/about • Ilya Budraitskis 
 Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia(Verso, 2022) https://www.versobooks.com/books/3881-dissidents-among-dissidents • Babi Yar https://babynyar.org/en

Norwegian artist BJARNE MELGAARD speaks to New Models about his foray into the cryptoverse with his first NFT project, Lightbulb Man — which, in true Melgaard-form, touches the limits of trust in a so-called trustless system. For more: https://lightbulbman.com/

In this monologue, Lil Internet ponders the rise and rise of the BADDIE—past, present, and future—and whether the metaverse will render the Baddie Body Industrial Complex obsolete, or open a golden gateway to Baddie transcendence. For more LIL INTERNET radio plays and all New Models content, join https://patreon.com/newmodels and check out our new project, https://channel.xyz

In which we speak with writer/critic NORA KHAN and artist/writer JOEL KUENNEN about deep time, rethinking the human in an era of accelerated machine learning, and recognizing the truly experimental in a culture increasingly bound by “aligned incentives.” The conversation took place at La Becque artist residency on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Nora and Joel have been developing two new books and a site specific installation, respectively. We discuss these projects, talking North Stars (plural), climate far-futures, and critical frameworks for Web3 creative production. For more: http://www.joelkuennen.com/ https://noranahidkhan.com/ https://foundation.app/blog/experimental-models https://labecque.ch/en/residency/ Forthcoming books Nora Khan, The Artificial and the Real (Art Metropole, 2022) Nora Khan, on the stakes AI Art poses for criticism (Lund Humphries’ New Directions in Contemporary Art Series, 2022)