Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

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.@ HelenHesterhttps://twitter.com/HelenHester?s=20 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Speaking with 3 Gen Z lefty meme posters during a live event at the New Museum in NYC. https://rhizome.org/events/after-the-end-of-history/Micro-lectures published to the Rhizome blog: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/04/salutations-fellow-kids/https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/17/communism-against-civilization-or-eco-fascism/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Choose Your Future, 2021, is part of KW Digital: Open Secret, 16 July - 31 December.joshuacitarella.com/chooseyourfuture/
www.kw-berlin.de/en/open-secret/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 way, the project emulates the signal amplification that occurs through social media, as radical takes move from the anonymous fringe into the verified mainstream. Is this the multi-faceted analysis of the Rand Corporation? Or is it a teenage meme poster who thinks it would be cool if these political keywords combined? I’m interested in the point where those spheres overlap.This project combines the creative efforts of some of the artists, memers and content creators that have most inspired me over the past few years. Texts by: Margo Bergamini, Nick Bird, @ manletpill, David Noel, Abbey Pusz, D.Z. Rowan and Joshua Citarella. Read by: Caroline Busta, Mat Dryhurst, A.M. Gittlitz, Daniel Keller, Anna Khachiyan, Holly Herndon, Lil' Internet, Jack Wagner and Joshua Citarella.---Open Secret is a six-month long online program exploring the role of the hidden in our apparently “open” society. Information technologies are supposed to increase our access to knowledge, making the world more legible, while undermining ignorance and superstition. But sometimes the feeling prevails that we have entered a new dark age of black boxes, projections, and paranoia. Techno-culture is obsessed with the unseen, the inaccessible, the known-unknown. Open Secret pursues things that are obscured–through artistic commissions, a suite of essays by leading thinkers, and an intensive public program dedicated to critical reappraisal of the digital infrastructures that organize civic life. With new contributions released on a monthly basis, the Open Secret website will bring together art, technology, politics, and new patterns of exchange.Curators: Nadim Samman, curator digital sphere, in collaboration with Katja Zeidler, head of education & mediation This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Holly, Davidy & Josh take a deep dive into milk wars, seed oils, plastics and the taint. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Dorian visits the stream to investigate gay frogs.Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive (Oki's Weird Stories)https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

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 is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

DNR community researchers Davidy, Holly & Margo join me to discuss the "Lindy Effect" and more.Follow on IG: @db00ts, @holyyyycow, @ismargohere, @do.not.research, @donotresearchDNR: Lindy meme:https://imgur.com/E2FHPCtNassim Taleb, “Becoming Anti-fragile”:https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2013/12/Anti-Fragile-2020.jpg Paul Skallas, “In Praise of the Lindy Walk”:https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-lindy-walk
 Paul Skallas, “Why do we Work Out?”
https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/why-do-we-work-outRaw Egg Nationalist, “Man’s World: Issue 2”:https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65613344/mans-world-issue-2-the-sea-the-seaRaw Egg Nationalist, “Draw Me a Gironda”:https://www.amazon.com/Draw-Gironda-Nationalist-Presents-Book-ebook/dp/B08PBZDGHHJosh’s Gironda (Do Not Psychoanalyze):https://imgur.com/a19AzFN This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

This episode is a joint release alongside New Models. We discuss: institutional failure, alt-media and the future of creator communities.New Models is a news aggregator, podcast, publisher and online community.For more:https://www.patreon.com/newmodelshttps://stolbun.institute/https://donotresearch.net/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe